What Botox does to your expression
A face is not only form, it is also movement. When part of it goes still, it is not your appearance that changes – it is what other people read in you.
What a character analysis is – and what it is not
Many people hear the word profiling and think of criminology. What we actually do is something else: we describe what is there. Judgement only comes in once there is a task – and even then it is not the person being judged.
When the problem is not the person but their day
A care home had run out of ideas about one of its residents. Psychologists, sociologists, conversations with every carer – nothing helped. In the end it was not down to her, but to the way her day was divided up.
The ideal partner – and the question nobody asks
Almost twenty years ago I asked a young woman to describe her ideal partner. She wrote a list. Then I asked her one question in return – and the list suddenly looked different.
Why I Developed Humanmorphology
No single field could answer my core questions. Why genetics, neurobiology, psychology and philosophy grew into a field of their own – and what it is meant to answer.