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"Happiness has many social benefits. Happy people tend to be healthier and more
successful. They are also more helpful and others often view them more
positively, making it easier for them to find companions and influence others.
Most research into happiness focuses on the associations between these benefits
and
feeling happy. But we think many benefits, especially the social ones,
are likely to depend primarily on
expressing happiness.
In our new research, which reviews studies examining the social functions of
the expression of happiness, we caution against pressuring others to display
the emotion.
This difference is important because people can express happiness without
feeling it, and vice versa. Some people find it more difficult than others to
put on a happy face, and will suffer negative effects in cultures that expect
or demand people to consistently appear happy."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
