Should You Smile Even If You Don’t Mean It?
Do you ever smile even though you're not happy? Is it bad to fake a smile? Read More: How we grin to bear it - the science of smiling http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/22/smil...
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I'm smiley, what can I say! I'm a happy and smiley guy! But wait, the fact that I'm smiley is helping me to stay happy? Science is ON THE FACE, er, Case! Emotions are private affairs, they exist almost completely inside our bodies, but our face is highly connected to the expressing of these emotions. Even back in the 1870s, Darwin believed emotions expressed outwardly were more intense than those held in. The thing is, it's not a one way street; emotional expression on the face, feeds BACK into the brain too! The face is connected to the brain by the seventh cranial nerve. The nerve runs exits the skull just in front of your ears and splits into five branches which activate different parts of the face. Let's all agree to stop telling peop...
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I'm smiley, what can I say! I'm a happy and smiley guy! But wait, the fact that I'm smiley is helping me to stay happy? Science is ON THE FACE, er, Case! Emotions are private affairs, they exist almost completely inside our bodies, but our face is highly connected to the expressing of these emotions. Even back in the 1870s, Darwin believed emotions expressed outwardly were more intense than those held in. The thing is, it's not a one way street; emotional expression on the face, feeds BACK into the brain too! The face is connected to the brain by the seventh cranial nerve. The nerve runs exits the skull just in front of your ears and splits into five branches which activate different parts of the face. Let's all agree to stop telling peop...
