Face to face

Another damp grey morning and an inwards looking run, although the drizzle did have a certain silvery beauty.

In an interesting analysis of the media reaction to the recently acquitted Amanda Knox, the Guardian refers to the illusion of asymmetric insight. Proposed by a Princeton psychologist, Emily Pronin, this suggests that, when you meet someone, you will always be more conscious of your thoughts and their face than they are, leading to a misleading assumption that whilst your own thoughts are complex & subtle, theirs can be easily read from their facial expression.
Probably not the most world-changing news item today but nevertheless a potentially useful reference point in our increasingly twittery, socially networky world of superficial intimacy. And a very pleasingly neat parcel of a theory.