Tag: smile
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A smile won’t make you happier if you are being watched
In the last post I mentioned the feedback your brain receives when you smile. Effectively, it thinks, “Hmm. I’m smiling; I must be happy”, and you actually become happier. This was shown in a famous study by Fritz Strack in 1988. However, attempts to replicate this experiment were not always successful. Some worked and some…
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If you smile you will feel happier.
If you smile you will feel happier. We think of our facial expressions and body language as being caused by our feelings and attitudes. However, it goes the other way too. If you smile, that tells your brain that you must be happy. Fritz Strack asked his participants to either hold a pen horizontally between…