Does Smiling Make You Happy?
Joy and happiness makes us genuinely smile, but can forcing a smile make us genuinely happy? Say cheese! SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience...
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Our story begins in the mid 1800s, when French scientist Guillaume Duchenne studied our emotional expressions by stimulating various facial muscles with electrical currents. He isolated which muscles are behind our expressions of terror, sadness and joy. While many muscles in our face can simulate a smile, only two produce a genuine smile--one under our eyes and another on the side of our cheeks. It looks like your eyes are smiling too. Psychologists call this a “Duchenne smile”. Joy and happiness makes us genuinely smile, but can smiling make us genuinely happy? Inspired by Duchenne’s work, Charles Darwin suggested that our facial movements influence our emotional experiences--there’s a feedback loop so looking scared would make you more fearful...
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Our story begins in the mid 1800s, when French scientist Guillaume Duchenne studied our emotional expressions by stimulating various facial muscles with electrical currents. He isolated which muscles are behind our expressions of terror, sadness and joy. While many muscles in our face can simulate a smile, only two produce a genuine smile--one under our eyes and another on the side of our cheeks. It looks like your eyes are smiling too. Psychologists call this a “Duchenne smile”. Joy and happiness makes us genuinely smile, but can smiling make us genuinely happy? Inspired by Duchenne’s work, Charles Darwin suggested that our facial movements influence our emotional experiences--there’s a feedback loop so looking scared would make you more fearful...
