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Psychological Science Goes to Mars
Teamwork is important in most jobs — but it’s especially critical for people who have to complete an expensive, high-stakes, and technically complicated mission all while locked in a zero-gravity chamber with their co-workers for
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Study: Forcing a Smile Genuinely Decreases Stress
The Atlantic: PROBLEM: Happiness makes us smile, but can smiling make us happy? Even if it’s a fake smile, because your mouth is propped open by chopsticks? There’s the standard smile, which remains located in
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Smiling ‘is good for the heart’
The Telegraph: Researchers found smiling can reduce stress levels and low the heart rate while performing difficult tasks. Writing in Psychological Science, the authors tell how they studied the effects of different types of smiling
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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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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