#226 Happiness - The 3 Benefits of Smiles
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this talk, we explore the positive benefits that smiling can have in our lives. We also look at the research study on smiling by N. Coles, J. Larsen and H. Lench entitled "A meta-analyiss of the facial feedback literature: Effects of facial feedback on emotional experience are small and variable," published in Psychological Bulletin, 2019. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Greeting people with a smile. |
| 0:15.0 | I think it's one of my favorite things that I like to do. |
| 0:18.0 | When I'm out and about and don't know people, |
| 0:21.0 | I usually will look them in the face and smile. |
| 0:24.9 | As you probably can imagine, I get all types of responses. |
| 0:28.6 | Many people just look at me, many people look away, many people don't even notice that I'm smiling at them but a lot of people smile |
| 0:36.3 | back and I'd like that and if it's a young child I may work a little harder at it to get a smile out of them because I know they're not |
| 0:46.0 | going to create a story about me smiling at them. They're just going to see if I can get them |
| 0:51.5 | to smile and often I can. |
| 0:55.0 | Sometimes I'm surprised by how much people don't look at each other |
| 0:59.0 | or when I smile at people, sometimes they don't even notice. And sometimes people have told me, |
| 1:05.0 | you really shouldn't smile at people in this big city. This big city is a harsh |
| 1:10.5 | place and it could be misinterpreted. But you know I decided in life that I'm going to smile at people and the beautiful thing that I found is when I do I often get beautiful smiles back. It really keeps my heart in a happy place and I really |
| 1:28.6 | enjoy smiling at people and I enjoy getting their smiles back. Now here's a chicken and egg question, |
| 1:37.0 | am I happy so I smile or does my smile make my heart happy? |
| 1:44.0 | It's a good question. |
| 1:45.0 | And that's what we're going to talk about today because a study recently came out talking |
| 1:49.9 | about smiling. |
| 1:52.2 | It was done by researchers at the University of Tennessee and Texas |
| 1:56.5 | A&M and it was reported in the psychological bulletin in 2019. In 2019. |
| 2:03.0 | Well, here's what they did. |
| 2:05.0 | There have been a lot of studies, believe it or not, on smiling and happiness. |
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