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Smiles and Longevity: Game Faces and Life Faces

By Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. on April 8, 2010 in The Good Life

One of the parable studies of positive psychology is the investigation of Duchenne smiles and marital satisfaction reported by Harker and Keltner (2001). These researchers analyzed 114 pictures from the 1958 and 1960 yearbooks of a women's college in the Bay Area. All but three of the young women were smiling, but the smiles varied. Read More

Baseball Fans please follow up on career performance

Submitted by Bill Gee on April 8, 2010 - 2:23pm.

Thanks Christopher
Can a baseball fan please provide mean career performance stats for the different smile categories.
I would be interested to learn if the Duchenne smiles also correlate with a better game.
In happiness
Bill Gee

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