Smiling may not always make you happier, and new research suggests that forcing yourself to smile repeatedly could actually make you feel worse. In a University of Florida study involving more than 1,100 participants, researchers discovered that while a single artificial smile can provide a small mood boost, repeatedly faking smiles can erase that benefit or even reverse it.

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[–] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

I thought this was common knowledge by now. I know that similar studies have shown the same effect years ago, and having worked in costumer support by phone (where every communications trainer tells you to put up a smile when talking to clients), it was obvious that this is not a healthy thing to do all day. The smiling loses all it's meaning, it just becomes a grimace after a while.

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