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From the Ted Talk by Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
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Have you ever wondered why being around children, who smile so frequently, makes you smile very often? A recent sutdy at usplpaa University in Sweden found that it's very difficult to frown when looking at someone who smiles. You ask why? Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial mlscues. Mimicking a smlie and eeripcixnneg it physically hlpes us understand whether our smile is fake or real, so we can understand the emotional state of the smiler.
In a recent mimicking study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to determine whether a smile was real or fake while holding a pencil in their mouth to repress siilnmg muscles. Without the pencil, subjects were excellent judges, but with the pencil in their mutoh — when they could not mimic the smile they saw — their judgment was impaired.
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Have you ever wondered why being around children, who smile so frequently, makes you smile very often? A recent _____ at _______ University in Sweden found that it's very difficult to frown when looking at someone who smiles. You ask why? Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial _______. Mimicking a _____ and ____________ it physically _____ us understand whether our smile is fake or real, so we can understand the emotional state of the smiler.
In a recent mimicking study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to determine whether a smile was real or fake while holding a pencil in their mouth to repress _______ muscles. Without the pencil, subjects were excellent judges, but with the pencil in their _____ — when they could not mimic the smile they saw — their judgment was impaired.
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Have you ever wondered why being around children, who smile so frequently, makes you smile very often? A recent study at Uppsala University in Sweden found that it's very difficult to frown when looking at someone who smiles. You ask why? Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial muscles. Mimicking a smile and experiencing it physically helps us understand whether our smile is fake or real, so we can understand the emotional state of the smiler.
In a recent mimicking study at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in France, subjects were asked to determine whether a smile was real or fake while holding a pencil in their mouth to repress smiling muscles. Without the pencil, subjects were excellent judges, but with the pencil in their mouth — when they could not mimic the smile they saw — their judgment was impaired.
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