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Smiling May Reduce Stress
LiveScience: Feeling good often causes us to smile, but can smiling cause us to feel good? New research suggests it might. “Age old adages, such as ‘grin and bear it’ have suggested smiling to be
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Sourire est bon pour le coeur (Smiling is good for the heart)
Slate: Et si un sourire, même forcé, permettait de réduire son stress? Les docteurs Tara Kraft et Sarah Pressman de l’université du Kansas ont décidé de se pencher sur la question. Dans Psychological Science, elles
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Why Do Older Adults Display More Positive Emotion? It Might Have to Do with What They’re Looking At
Research has shown that older adults display more positive emotions and are quicker to regulate out of negative emotional states than younger adults. Given the declines in cognitive functioning and physical health that tend to
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Una sonrisa para rebajar el estrés (A smile to lower stress)
ABC: Aunque la sonrisa es síntoma de que nos sentimos bien también puede ser una buena herramienta para mejorar nuestro humor cuando el estrés nos invade. Así lo asegura un estudio de la Universidad de
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Simply Smiling Can Actually Reduce Stress
Smithsonian Magazine: It sounds like the most useless advice imaginable: Just put on a happy face. Conventional wisdom is that smiling is an effect of feeling happy, rather than the other way around. Simply smiling
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Even a fake grin may help lower heart rate in stressful situations
CBS News: A fake smile might be better for you than no grin at all, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Kansas discovered that if people were told to hold a
