Are very large eyes a sign of an overemotional person

Not a bit. The linking of large eyes to emotion, thin lips to meanness, and other physical features to personality is a type of character analysis that has been discredited by every sound scientific study. In spite of this, the myths persist, and there are even current books that play upon the fallacy.

The size and shape of your features, or, for that matter, of your body, feet, or hands, do not reflect your inner personality. There is no genetic link between appearance and character.

How you move your body and your features is another story. We are all born with differently shaped eyes, and we can hold them at various levels and project different expressions with them. We can hold our mouths differently, become tight-lipped or project one lip over another, jut out our jaws or slump our bodies -but these are ways in which the personality affects the way we use our features.

The way we hold our face can even determine beauty or ugliness. Just think of some of our plastic-faced comedians who can change character just by puffing out their cheeks or loosening their lips, widening their eyes or raising their eyebrows.

One important point to remember in all of this is that your appearance, or your own concept of how you look, whether you think you’re beautiful or ugly, can influence your personality. People treat good-looking men and women differently, and this difference can have an effect.

If your wife had been told that big eyes meant an emotional nature ever since she was a child, she might well have become overemotional to live up to the expectations of others, just as red-haired people often are conned into believing that they have very short tempers. It’s expected of them, and they fall into the trap.