Duck face

A woman making a duck face pose

Duck face is a trend of photographic pose, which is well known on profile pictures in social networks. Lips are pressed together as in a pout and often with simultaneously sucked cheeks. The pose is most often seen as an attempt to appear alluring, but also as a self-deprecating, ironic gesture making fun of the pose. It may be associated with sympathy, attractiveness, friendliness or stupidity.[1]

A 2015 study found that people posting duck face pictures are more likely to be associated with neuroticism and emotional instability.[2][3] According to a study by the online dating site OkCupid, users expressed more interest towards women whose profile pictures showed them posing with a duck face, as opposed to smiling.[4][5]

In animal communication studies of capuchin monkeys, the "duck face" term has been used synonymously with "protruded lip face", which the females exhibit in the proceptive phase before mating.[6][7]

OxfordDictionaries.com added "duck face" as a new word in 2014 to their list of current and modern words, but it has not been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.[8][9]

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References

  1. ↑ Miller, Sarah (25 May 2011). "Duck Hunting on the Internet". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ Bushak, Lecia (18 August 2015). "What Your Selfies Can Reveal About Your Personality". Medical Daily. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  3. ↑ Qiu, Lin; Lu, Jiahui; Yang, Shanshan; Qu, Weina; Zhu, Tingshao (November 2015). "What does your selfie say about you?" (PDF). Computers in Human Behavior. 52: 443–449. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.06.032.
  4. ↑ Walsh, Wendy (23 April 2013). The 30-Day Love Detox: Cleanse Yourself of Bad Boys, Cheaters, and Commitment Phobes—And Find Your Perfect Relationship. Rodale. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-60961-971-8. OkCupid's online analytics show clear statistics about who gets the hits and who doesn't. ... Women who smile get fewer clicks than women who pout. (Yes, that silly duck face.)
  5. ↑ Rudder, Christian (January 20, 2010). "The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures". OkCupid. Archived from the original on July 14, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2016. For women, a smile isn’t strictly better: she actually gets the most messages by flirting directly into the camera ...
  6. ↑ Fragaszy, Dorothy M.; Visalberghi, Elisabetta; Fedigan, Linda M. (21 June 2004). The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus Cebus. Cambridge University Press. pp. 203–204, 233. ISBN 978-0-521-66768-5.
  7. ↑ Manson, J. H.; Perry, S.; Parish, A. R. (October 1997). "Nonconceptive sexual behavior in bonobos and capuchins". International Journal of Primatology. 18 (5): 767–786. doi:10.1023/A:1026395829818.
  8. ↑ Steinmetz, Katy (3 December 2014). "Oxford Dictionaries Adds 'Duck Face,' 'Man Crush' and 'Lolcat'". Time.
  9. ↑ "Lolcat and duck face new words in Oxford Dictionaries online". BBC. 4 December 2014.
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