Vanessa Van Edwards breaks down the three facial signs of disgust: nose wrinkles, a raised upper lip showing the upper teeth, and a lifted lip corner. She explains how to spot it in real life, where people often mask dislike with a polite version of the expression.
So the biggest way that you're gonna spot disgust is by the wrinkles in the nose. We always think that disgust or dislike, revulsion, being displeased only has to do with food or smell. But actually the disgust emotion comes up all the time. Let me point out the major components of disgust. So the biggest way that you're gonna spot disgust is by the wrinkles in the nose. I want you to try this with me at home. I want you to crinkle up your nose. So you have your nose raised, and all these wrinkles appear at the top half of your nose. And then I want you to flash the upper whites of your teeth at me. So raise your lip, Flash the upper whites. That, my friends, is disgust. So what's great about this is you can see that there's clear nose crinkling in this part of the nose. You also have the upper whites of the teeth show and the lip is raised. It's a very specific one to see. You often see disgust when someone is trying to think of a nice way to say they don't like something. So if you ask, so, what do you think of the new girl? Oh, yeah, she's pretty cool. And you know just from seeing that disgust from that preference that there's a little bit of disgust going on.
