Smile!
2013-02-28
How Do We Recognize People? By Their Teeth!
2012-10-09
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Anne Strieber asked herself this question after she recovered from a brain aneurysm and found she had a hard time doing it. Later, she found out that sometimes birds recognize faces more easily than we do!
Scientists have found new evidence that people spot a face in the crowd more quickly when their teeth are visible–whether smiling or grimacing.
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A Good Reason to Smile
2012-08-22
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There’s nothing like a smile–it’s a powerful tool, because it helps us heal. Feeling good usually makes us smile, but does it work the other way around? Can smiling actually make us feel better?
Psychologists investigated the potential benefits of smiling by looking at how different types of smiling, and the awareness of smiling, affects individuals’ ability to recover from episodes of stress.
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What is that Smiling Person REALLY Thinking?
2011-10-21
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Facial expressions have been called the "universal language of emotion," but people from different cultures perceive happy, sad or angry facial expressions in unique ways. In some cultures, smiling at a person you don’t know well (such as a clerk in a shop or someone on the street) makes you seem gauche and even rude.
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