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Study: Smiling makes people happier

By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 16-04-2019
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Smiling really can make people feel happier, according to researchers who looked at nearly 50 years of data testing whether facial expressions can lead people to feel the related emotions. "Conventional wisdom tells us that we can feel a little happier if we simply smile. Or that we can get ourselves in a more serious mood if we scowl," said Nicholas Coles, PhD student at University of Tennessee in the US.

"But psychologists have actually disagreed about this idea for over 100 years," Coles said in a statement. These disagreements became more pronounced in 2016, when 17 teams of researchers failed to replicate a well-known experiment demonstrating that the physical act of smiling can make people feel happier.

"Some studies have not found evidence that facial expressions can influence emotional feelings," Coles said. "But we can't focus on the results of any one study. Psychologists have been testing this idea since the early 1970s, so we wanted to look at all the evidence," he said.

Using a statistical technique called meta-analysis, researchers combined data from 138 studies testing more than 11,000 participants from all around the world. According to the results published in the journal Psychological Bulletin, facial expressions have a small impact on feelings.

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