Putting a Certain Face on Emotions; Right Sort of Grin May Spark Brain Response

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 8, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Any good poker player knows that there is more than one kind of smile, and can distinguish from across a table the grin of someone who's holding a flush from the miserable smile of someone who's been dealt a lousy hand.

We see the world and react, our faces a rear-projection screen for our emotions. But can feelings work in the other direction? Can the expressions on our faces spark feelings, instead of the other way around?

Recent psychological research suggests that they can: Voluntarily making a certain kind of smile triggers some of the same physiological responses in the brain that have ...

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