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In a long-running Berkeley study, researchers found that women who smiled genuinely in their college yearbook photos went on to have more stable marriages and higher wellbeing thirty years later than those whose smiles were posed
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LeeAnne Harker and Dacher Keltner, both then at Berkeley, coded photographs from Mills College yearbooks and matched them against decades of follow-up data.
As the study’s own history records, its participants were drawn from the senior classes of 1958 and 1960 at Mills College, a private college for predominantly white, middle-class women in Oakland, California.
That is why a posed smile tends to look flat around the eyes and why a genuine one crinkles them.
The posed smile is a motor-cortex action, something a person does; the genuine one is limbic, something that happens to them when they feel something.
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