Carl Zimmer, contributor to The New York Times' Science Times and author of Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind, talks about developments in the research of smiling and what smiling means for our brains.
President Obama's smile was impressively consistent when he posed for photographs with 130 foreign dignitaries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. Check out the video below, from Bus Your Own Tray blogger Eric Spiegelman.
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Although it's an over-used icon—and thus to my slight discomfort—I often find myself adding the text smile to my emails. It's a way of ensuring that the context is friendly, especially when time is tight and my messages are terse. : )
Obama looks like a cardboard cutout.
A woman would sooner leave the house without her purse than without her smile. Aren't the social uses of women's smiles a broad category in itself?
A woman would sooner leave the house without her purse than without her smile. Aren't the social uses of womens' smiles a broad category in itself?
A woman would sooner leave the house without her purse than without her smile. Aren't the social uses of womens' smiles a broad category in itself?
I always notice that Amy Eddings smiles when she comes on in the afternoon and says "thanks so much for tuning in". You can hear it in her voice. It's so nice!
What about the "monocle smile"?
What about the cultural component to smiling? I lived in Japan for awhile, and people there don't always smile for the same reasons we do. Often, Japanese people smile to defray embarrassment. It was sometimes very confusing, because at first I thought they found me amusing. Not always so!
I think the term for a "fake" smile is called a Duchenne smile.
i am not commenting on any specific person,but i personally, don't trust anyone with a strained smile. or, people who smile in one speed. i am not sure, however, how one gets far in politics, without the armour, of an all purpose smile. oh........politics
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