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Posts tagged with 'smile'

Embodied cognition: posture & feelings

21st February 2011

This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Sadly (!) more recent research throws doubt on this 'power posture' literature ... see for example Simmons & Simonsohn's paper "Power posing: P-curving the evidence". Intriguingly there is an argument that possible benefits of an …

“Smile intensity in photographs predicts divorce later in life”

5th July 2009

I do think that Matt Hertenstein and colleagues came up with an eye catching title here: Hertenstein, M., C. Hansel, et al. (2009). "Smile intensity in photographs predicts divorce later in life." Motivation and Emotion 33(2): 99-105. [Abstract/Full Text] [Free Full Text] Abstract: Based on social-functional accounts of emotion, we …