Smile As You Read This: Language That Puts You In Touch With Your Bodily Feelings
Friday, August 7, 2009 - 10:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Louis Armstrong sang, "When you're smilin', the whole world smiles with you." Romantics everywhere may be surprised to learn that psychological research has proven this sentiment to be true -- merely seeing a smile (or a frown, for that matter) will activate the muscles in our face that make that expression, even if we are unaware of it. Now, according to a new study, simply reading emotion verbs may also have the same effect.