For those who suffer from Bitchy Resting Face, you'll know that it's a constant struggle with comments such as "Smile, it's not that bad!" and "You look like Grumpy Cat" becoming a regular occurrence.

While there is no known cure for Bitchy Resting Face, except for smiling or telling people to p*ss off and mind their own business, there is science to back up the fact that it doesn't always necessarily mean you're wishing harm on everything you see.

Behavioural researchers Drs. Jason Rogers and Abbe Macbeth have concluded that there a few key signifiers of a Bitchy Resting Face, having run various examples through a detailed facial-detection programme they designed. They loaded in a barrage of genuinely expressionless faces to establish a baseline and from there, they began to enter in well-known BRFs such as Kanye West, Kristen Stewart, Queen Elizabeth II and Anna Kendrick. The result?

"Something in the neutral expression of the face is relaying contempt, both to the software and to us," explained Dr. Rogers. According to the programme's analysis, it's small little cues such as eyes squinting ever so slightly or a lip turned up, but not into a smile. As Dr. Rogers explained, the human brain interprets this expression as contempt. The programme also found that Bitchy Resting Face isn't just confined to solely women, either. After several inputs into the programme, it's analysed that the phenomenon is just as prevalent in men as it is in women.

So, when someone tells you that you have Bitchy Resting Face, you can tell them it's their brain interpreting your expression as contempt, not you being a bitch. So it's THEIR problem, not yours.

 

Via WP.com