Yeah, it's like the muscles which go vertically up past the nose are in a constant state of micro-contraction. These:
I looked into it and found that those muscles are associated with strong emotions, usually grief or used when deeply weeping. To use a metaphor, it's the ones you contract when you're on the edge of tears and holding back. It was odd to me that I found some people constantly contract these unconsciously.
It's well know that smirks/grimmaces that raise up the side of one nostril are associated with 'contempt', smugness or moral superiority. I wondered if Fi could cause signals of contempt and (due to how it's a very private ethical process) whether it could cause a lot of these signals. Sure enough, nearly all the Fi users I've known (who have very private beliefs, opinions and stand by them) do this sort of "micro-snarling" ...or that's how I call it. It looks something like this (each of these frames can be just a few miliseconds apart):
(wow this post turned out long, sorry. i hope this helps answer the question!)







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