Some people smile to make friends and they are right. New research suggests a good way to make a new friend is to smile. The visual display of positive emotions works because people are much more attuned to positive emotions when forming new bonds than they are too negative ones such as anger, contempt, or sadness.
Others smile to look younger and live longer, guess what they are wrong. When asked, most people would say that a smile takes years off your appearance. According to the latest study, it is quite the reverse. Research shows that, if you want to appear younger, a look of surprise is your best bet.
According to the latest study, smiling makes you look 1 year older. If you want to stay looking young, there are several things you might choose to do - exercising, eating right, and getting enough sleep. Also, you might try smiling less.
Smiling is typically associated with youth and vibrancy, and anyone who has ever watched a makeup commercial knows that. However, scientists have discovered that, if you smile, other people will, on average, rate you as older.
A new study from Western University in Canada, published this in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review proves this point and probes a little deeper into our subconscious.
When the survey was over, the researchers asked the participants if they held the belief that they rated smiling faces as younger when, in reality, they rated them as older.
From a psychological point of view, this is an interesting result. "People's beliefs don't necessarily correspond to the way they behave; they can hold a belief that's contrary to the way they behave," says Goodale. "This adds to that whole corpus of knowledge that one has to measure behaviour directly, rather than simply taking an attitude scale or a rating, because sometimes - though not always - you can be misled.
And then there are those, who so totally get a life, that smiling is all they know and they know that people react positively to your smile.
Others smile to look younger and live longer, guess what they are wrong. When asked, most people would say that a smile takes years off your appearance. According to the latest study, it is quite the reverse. Research shows that, if you want to appear younger, a look of surprise is your best bet.
According to the latest study, smiling makes you look 1 year older. If you want to stay looking young, there are several things you might choose to do - exercising, eating right, and getting enough sleep. Also, you might try smiling less.
Smiling is typically associated with youth and vibrancy, and anyone who has ever watched a makeup commercial knows that. However, scientists have discovered that, if you smile, other people will, on average, rate you as older.
A new study from Western University in Canada, published this in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin and Review proves this point and probes a little deeper into our subconscious.
When the survey was over, the researchers asked the participants if they held the belief that they rated smiling faces as younger when, in reality, they rated them as older.
From a psychological point of view, this is an interesting result. "People's beliefs don't necessarily correspond to the way they behave; they can hold a belief that's contrary to the way they behave," says Goodale. "This adds to that whole corpus of knowledge that one has to measure behaviour directly, rather than simply taking an attitude scale or a rating, because sometimes - though not always - you can be misled.
And then there are those, who so totally get a life, that smiling is all they know and they know that people react positively to your smile.
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