THE BIG ISSUE The Big Issue - 11 January 2016 | Page 44

GAMES & PUZZLES WorldMags.net SPOT THE BALL FOUNDERS John Bird and Gordon Roddick A Group executive chairman Nigel Kershaw B PRODUCTION Art director Scott Maclean Designer Jim Ladbury Production editor Ross McKinnon Assistant production editor Rosanna Farrell Production journalist Sarah Reid Production co-ordinator Terry Cimini ADVERTISING 020 7907 6633 Advertising director Andrea Mason Advertising manager Esme Collins Classified and Recruitment 020 7907 6635 Jenny Bryan & Brad Beaver Marketing and communications director Lara McCullagh C D E F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 To win a Bala Fairtrade-certified football, mark where you think the ball is, cut out and send to: Spot the Ball (1187), Second Floor, 43 Bath St, Glasgow, G2 1HW by January 19. Include name, address and phone number. To enter by email, send your grid position (eg A1) to competitions@bigissue. com. Issue 1185 winner is Ann Rowe from London. balasport.co.uk Brain Teaser (Last week’s Spot the Ball revealed: Manchester City v Leeds United, 1969) Don’t bite my head of! Sorry boys, this week’s experiment is just for the girls (though, on the positive side, this gives you a chance to play psychology experimenter by trying out this test on a female friend or family member). Now, please look (or ask your experimental participant to look) at the two faces below. THE BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION Chief executive Stephen Robertson 020 7526 3458 Editorial Second Floor, 43 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 1HW 0141 352 7260 [email protected] Distribution / London: 020 7526 3200 Printed at Polestar. Published weekly by The Big Issue, 1-5 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LN PPA cover of the year 2015 On a scale of 1 (not at all) to 7 (very much) how angry would you say each person is? You should be aware that both of these people are trying to suppress their emotions with a neutral expression but that ‘microexpressions’ may leak through, and that people are generally pretty accurate in spotting them. When this study was done under controlled conditions (with many different faces), women perceived more anger in female faces than male faces (males perceived no such difference). In fact, neither the male nor female faces were displaying any hint of anger (that stuff about ‘microexpressions’ was pure bunkum). So why did women see anger in the female faces when there was none? The authors of the study (don’t shoot the messenger!) suggest this is because when women feel aggression towards another woman, they attempt to conceal it. As a result, women sometimes interpret neutral female faces as showing hidden aggression. This effect was even bigger when the women rating faces saw themselves as very attractive (perhaps because they are more often on the end of jealous glances). In contrast, if a man is angry he tends to show it. So when we see a neutral expression on a male, we don’t perceive anger: if he were really angry, we’d know it. Don’t take this at face value, visit: tinyurl.com/q8mns7j Discover new truths in our weekly test, based on Dr Ben Ambridge’s book, PSY-Q, a series of interactive tests of your personality, intelligence, moral values, thinking style, impulsivity, skill at drawing, capacity for logical reasoning, musical taste, multi-tasking ability, susceptibility to illusions (both visual and mental) and preferences in a romantic partner. Courtesy of Profile Books THE BIG ISSUE / p44 / January 11-17 2016 WorldMags.net EDITORIAL Editor Paul McNamee Deputy editor Vicky Carroll Senior reporter Adam Forrest Features editor Steven MacKenzie Social media editor Andrew Burns Web content manager Theo Hooper Books editor Jane Graham Television editor Adrian Lobb Film Edward Lawrenson Music Malcolm Jack and David Fay The Big Issue Boffin Dr Ben Ambridge Office manager Robert White