Even fake smiles reduce stress We think of our face as reflecting our internal emotions, but that linkage works both ways - we can change our emotional state by altering our facial expression!

Can smiling make you happy? "Come rain or shine, if you put a smile on your face, it changes how you feel from the inside out," writes Nicci. "A smile radiates love, warmth, and happiness to ...

But it also may help to be happy, a new study says. Even if you're grumpy by nature, just try to be cheerful. Researchers at Columbia University rated the happiness levels of more than 1,700 ...

Today's "stuff-that's-bad-for-you" news: faking a smile. Turns out, if you put on an insincere happy face it may be bad for your health. A study by Michigan State University researchers published ...

Writing for the blog Buffer, Leo Widrich wrote: "Whenever we smile, there are 2 potential muscles we activate.The first one is the zygomaticus major and it controls the corners of your mouth ...

I may have no idea who half the people at the Golden Globes were, but I do know smiles. As a miserable adult, I fake smile throughout most of my day. This makes me an expert. Maybe? Anyway, here ...

Smiles are easy to fake and that means we're actually pretty bad a figuring out if someone's happy. Essentially, if you start by looking at someone's smile, you're not always going to get a solid ...

Even if a comment encourages a woman to smile more, it's likely they will pick up a fake smile, Fisher said. "If people tell you to smile when you don’t feel like smiling, [and you smile] you ...

You've heard it before: to avoid a heart attack don't smoke, eat right and exercise. But it also may help to be happy, a new study says. Even if you're grumpy by nature, just try to be cheerful ...