Posing with a smile may make you happier, according to a new paper by an international team of researchers. We naturally smile when we’re happy. But the question of whether doing the opposite — posing ...

Fake smiles do not necessarily indicate dishonesty. They also might be used in most instances as a coping mechanism. Since ...

If you're feeling a little low, smile anyway. That alone could shift your mood. This idea is known as the facial feedback hypothesis, and researchers set out to either prove or disprove the theory in ...

Normally we think happiness causes smiling, but can smiling cause happiness? Source: Photo by luizclas from Pexels When I taught my first undergraduate social psychology course, I was excited to ...

When we're happy, we smile. The corners of our mouths move out and up, our cheeks lift, and the skin around our eyes crinkles. But does it work the other way? Can posing our muscles in a smile ...

Laughter is the blunderbuss of positive social signals–loud, arresting, a little bit crude. The smile, by contrast, is a marvel of subtlety, conveying nuances of meaning so fine that we’re not even ...