Why is loughner smiling

The evolution of smiles is opaque and, as with many evolutionary accounts of social behavior, fraught with just-soism. Among human babies, however, the 'tooth-baring' smile is associated less with friendship than with fright--which, one might argue, is related to the tooth-baring threats of baboons. Somehow we seem to have taken the fright-threat sort of smile and extended it to strangers as a presumably friendly smile.

Maybe it is not as innocent as it seems. Other science says that people in the presence of authority figures—say an accused killer surrounded by police—frequently laugh unconsciously at unfunny things in an effort to get into the authority figure's good graces. None of this is to say that Loughner is definitely not a homicidal maniac laughing at his carnage, of course.

We can compare it to others photos of Jared to see how it compares. Honestly, to me it looks like someone who is mentally ill, even without taking into account what he did. He looks like someone who is quietly snickering about something a voice only he can hear has told him. The left side of his face near is eye area is more hooded and the lips are off. When a person smiles with bells palsy once side of lips may look more stretched out than the other side because of the slackening of the muscle.

It may look more outward stretched than curved up. Also his nose is off-center, more curved to the right. Loughner fled on foot from his house with the black bag, the timeline stated. He was picked up by a cab at a. An Internet gaming website released postings Friday that company officials believe were written by Loughner. Some of the posts were first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The company, EarthEmpires.

The posts depict a young man frustrated with rejection from women and employers and with his poor grades. Being alone for a very long time will inevitably lead you to rape. This will never stop The Principle of this is that them … educators need to stop being pigs.

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