Intuitively, it seems to us that a smile means that someone is happy or, in the worst case, at least satisfied. However, according to research, a smile on your face can also mean many other things. Science says that a smile reveals more than we think. What exactly, read in the article.
Science says yes a smile reveals more than we think. The belief that a smile is a sign of contentment and happiness is in specified specific cases wrong. According to the research, which was held in Brighton and Sussex, people often smile more because of social reasons. This means that a smile is not triggered by a feeling of satisfaction or a happy event, but instead we smile because it is expected of us, or because we want to please, or something else. V research was involved 44 participants, which they had to solve geography quiz.
The quiz was designed at such a difficult level for a reason that the participants mostly got the answers wrong. From this we can conclude that many people were not at all satisfied with the quiz. After completing the rescue, he followed an interview with the participants, where they were asked about their well-being during the rescue, while their facial expressions. The results showed that the smile was multiple times elicited in response to some specific social situation, but not as a result of pleasure. Of course there is several types of smileys - the ones we put on when we're happy, the ones that protect us when we're embarrassed, the ones that come on during the day at the most inopportune moments, and we could go on and on.
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