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Show Is your H”” MUCH can youtell about a person just by looking? Well, science has found that if you know the signs to look for you can frequently tell far more than you’d ever suspect. The Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Leonard L. Lovshin has spent many years carefully checking, testing, and cataloguing the various. telltale signs which give away personality secrets and make a person as easy to read as an open book. Take the wearing of dark glasses, for example. ‘ Mannerisms-and-ethertelltale Now there’s nothing wrong about wearing dark signs makeiteasyto seethe real you, says a noted researcher. Dr. Lovshin has found—and leading clinicians agree—that the wearing of dark glasses indoors, or outside on days when the sun doesn’t shine, is a strong indication of neurosis. The dark glasses act as a shield for the emotionally insecure person to glasses outside and when the sunis shining. But hide behind, Also, as Dr. Lovshin points out, it is typical of many high-strung and overly nervous individuals that they cannot tolerate light even though it is not bright by normal standards. There are, of course, cases where a person who om” _is perfectly normal will wear dark glasses when the sun isn’t out: prominent persons traveling incognito or people who have eye trouble, for example. But these are exceptions, not the rule. Tinted lenses, incidentally, have the same connotation as the wearing of dark glasses. “It is exceedingly difficult to fit glasses for a tense, highstrung, worrisome type of person,” Dr. Lovshin points out, “and every eye specialist has had the experience of having such a person protest plaintively that the glasses did notfit right, even after they had been changed three or four times. In desperation, the ophthalmologist often prescribes a tint for the lenses and the patient is somewhat happier with them.” Dr.. Lovshin’s investigations alsg show that women (entertainers excepted) who pluck their eyebrows and pencil in a line may be neurotic. And though the fact that a woman dyesherhair was found to have no particular personality significance, brunettes who bleached their hair platinum blonde very definitely tended to be mal- men do — adjusted. (So take a look at their hair roots, boys, before calling your shots on this one.) What about people who wear toupees? The " wearing of a toupee, Dr. Lovshin finds, isnot in itself clinically significant. But a badly matched or poorly fitted toupee is something else again. And the person whose hairpiece doesn’t look if it quite belonged there isn’t likely to have a well~ balanced personality. But if you can’t detect that the fringe is phony, there’s no penalty on this one. Other signs found to be associated with a neurotic or emotionally unstable personality were a Ss look at yourself helps study others. whining or weepy voice, widely dilated pupils, and repeated sighing. Butthe sign of greatest significance, Dr. Lovshin finds, is the presence offluttering eyelids. Eyelidfluttering simply does not go with a well-balanced personality. To be really proficient at this, a_ woman mustbe hysterical—orat least have a full4 blown neurosis. This type is frequently observed in doctors’ offices, é “Thetypical picture,” says Dr. Lovshin, “is that of a delicate ‘sissy’ type of young woman whotells the doctorall her ‘horrible’ symptoms whilemanaging a sweet, brave smile and a chaste fluttering of the eyelids. The mechanism of this fluttering is not known, but it cannot be reproduced voluntarily to the same delicate degree.” Healso finds that the middle-aged woman who Her flapper days end= 18 ed a few decades ago. Family Weekly, January 18, 1959 paints herlips in a tiny cupid’s bow is almost al‘ways emotionally immature; and if a baby-like voice is included in the picture, you've got an i ~:, personality showing? by John E. Gibson Cartoons by Ben Thompson |
