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thin body and narrow face. Such conclusions
are speculative and call to
mind the nineteenth-century practice of
divining a man’s soul from the shape of
his skull. But whether or not they turn
out to be accurate, it’s interesting that
these are just the physical characteristics
we give fictional characters when
we want to suggest that they’re quiet,
introverted, cerebral. It’s as if these
physiological tendencies are buried
deep in our cultural unconscious.
Take Disney movies, for example:
Kagan and his colleagues speculate that
Disney animators unconsciously understood
high reactivity when they drew
sensitive figures like Cinderella, Pinocchio,
and Dopey with blue eyes, and
brasher characters like Cinderella’s
stepsisters, Grumpy, and Peter Pan with
darker eyes. In many books, Hollywood
films, and TV shows, too, the stock
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