Enrique Peña Nieto will be Mexico's new President. His election signals a new crescendo and return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). But the bad news is Enrique has a poor poker face.
Self-touching usually falls into a class of body language behaviors known as Manipulators, Adaptors or Pacifiers (MAPs). Facial self-touching, with rare exception, should never be displayed by a politician/physician/CEO/leader of any type, unless he/she is in private. In general MAPs signal increased anxiety and sometimes deception (depending on what other nonverbals clustered with it). MAPs will transmit feelings of anxiety to the audience - even if it's just one person. I've seen far too many attorneys display a similar face in the courtroom - and you can bet the jury/judge/their client "feels" this anxiety too.
The President elect (who will take office in December 2012) also is displaying a mild amount of mid-face tension - particularly in the "mustache area" above the upper lip. His upper lip itself also displays a trace amount of thinning - which also is an anger indicator. The tension doesn't stop there though - for he is displaying a trace-to-mild amount of nostril flaring, also seen with anger and disgust.
Good Luck President-elect Peña Nieto. You'll need it.
See also:
Analysis # 1869: One Body Language Signal a President Should Never Display
Analysis # 199: When a Lie is Told, Heard or Visualized by .... Vladimir's Eye
Analysis # 1411: Dialing Up Her Alpha - Dana Perino
Analysis # 1901: Maria Sharapova's Anxiety
Analysis # 1697: George Zimmerman in Shackles - How does this Alter His Body Language, Testimony and Our Perception?
See also:
Analysis # 1869: One Body Language Signal a President Should Never Display
Analysis # 199: When a Lie is Told, Heard or Visualized by .... Vladimir's Eye
Analysis # 1901: Maria Sharapova's Anxiety
Analysis # 1697: George Zimmerman in Shackles - How does this Alter His Body Language, Testimony and Our Perception?
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