Tucking the chin, lowering the head, dominating face, facial features, draw social inferences, perceptions of aggression, intimidation and dominance TheHealthSite.com ...

They’ll measure the angle of your head tilt or face turn. They’ll also examine your eye movement and alignment at different head positions to check your vision.

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The researchers concluded that people intuitively know which side of the face tends to reveal more emotion, and naturally angle their heads in one direction more than the other for portraiture.

The head tilt, then, isn’t about sound, but about processing a verbal cue and matching it to a mental image, states the study, published in the journal Animal Cognition in 2021. Why this gesture?