Blog 7: Psychology

Positive Psychology

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The effects, benefits, results, and story of Smiling.


-Smiling is a very famous, popular, and effective way to spread feelings.
-Smiling to a person gives that person the same feeling you have. For example, we've all had a "stare contest" with one of our friends. And as always, one ends up smiling and also making the other person smile and laugh.
-A test was done with pictures of people who had constant, wide-open smiles, and people with small or no smiles. The results were finding the life-span of all these people. It was concluded that the people who smiled more, lived an average of 7 years longer. This may just be a coincidence, myth, or hoax, but its not just the physical property of smiling, its the feelings behind it that give your life happiness.
-Children can smile up to 400 times per day, and they lead the charts.
-30% of adults smile more than 20 times per day.
-14% smile less than 5 times per day.
-Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden show that it is harder to frown at a smiling face, and that if you look at someone smiling, you are compelled to smile.
-Smiling doesn't just effect you, it also effects people around you. It gives you a more happy, genuine, and courteous look.

January 12th, 2012.

Susan Clark

The Author states every source from studies from universities or tests.