"Laugh to be happy" is counterproductive

ByDiego Dalmaso Martins

A smile makes a person look attractiveIt is thought that it is good not only for health, but it turned out that if you make a smile contrary to your own feeling, you feel more depressed.

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It is for everyone to laugh at daring to make you feel better when you are depressed or to laugh at your heart so that others do not know about it,Journal of Experimental Social PsychologyAccording to the results of the research published in the above, it seems that those acts are rather counterproductive. According to Anirban Mukhopadhyay of Hong Kong University of Science, who conducted the research, whether the smile exerts a positive effect or a negative effect on him / her is largely influenced by "the reason the person smiles."

In the research, three experiments were conducted to investigate how often people laugh and what motivates motive smiles. In one of the three experiments, 108 subjects said that "How much smile did you have in a day today?" And "Do you think people usually smile when they feel better? Do you think you would laugh at? "And how satisfied are you with your life? I answered a questionnaire to examine that.

ByBlaye Cotes de Bordeaux

In another experiment, researchers showed interesting pictures to another 63 people and instructed "Please smile if you find interesting pictures." And in the third experiment, 85 subjects told the subject "Please list the situation that makes me feel happy and smile," then after having a facial exercise to make a smiley face or not a smiley face, We examined the satisfaction level of each subject's life.

The research team analyzed the results of the three experiments, "As a subject smiling when not feeling happiness, the feeling is easy to fall when making a smile, and subjects who smile when feeling happiness feel better when they smile" I understood.

ByB Rosen

"When you make a smile when you are sad, people are likely to associate the act of" laughing "not only with a happy mood but also with a miserable feeling," Mukhopadhyay says. "Beyond what is generally considered, we believe that" smiles when you are depressed are counterproductive rather than feeling better, making people feel bad. "Try to laugh to be happy That's why I am reminded that "I am not happy right now." That's why the type of person who smiles naturally is fine as before but smiles and negative emotions are connected Mukhopadhyay says that you should not laugh until you solve the problem that causes negative emotions.

ByTom Blackwell