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An eight-week trial asked 60 older adults to take 15-minute walks; awe-focused walkers’ coded smiles intensified and daily distress fell, but depression and life satisfaction did not change
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The most memorable result in the “awe walk” study was written across people’s faces.
Smile intensity increased over time in the awe group relative to the control group.
Within that distress cluster, sadness and fear fell more in the awe group, but anger, anxiety and annoyance did not.
Control participants recorded significantly more walks than awe participants, averaging 18.9 compared with 7.5.
Over eight weeks, participants taught to look outward placed themselves more lightly in the frame and smiled more intensely.