A sincere smile and funny wrinkles around the eyes give out a cheerful disposition and … predict a long and happy life. Psychologists Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger (Ernest Abel, Michael Kruger) from Wayne University (USA) selected 230 photos of baseball players from the register of 1952 and divided them into three groups: the first included pictures of unsmiling athletes, the second — images of players with a restrained (functional) ) smile, and in the third — a photo of the participants with a “Duchenne smile”.
A sincere smile and funny wrinkles around the eyes give out a cheerful disposition and … predict a long and happy life. Psychologists Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger (Ernest Abel, Michael Kruger) from Wayne University (USA) selected 230 photos of baseball players from the register of 1952 and divided them into three groups: the first included pictures of unsmiling athletes, the second — images of players with a restrained (functional) ) smile, and in the third — a photo of the participants with a “Duchenne smile” *. After analyzing their biographies, sports careers, physical condition, and other data, scientists found an obvious relationship between life expectancy, subjective life satisfaction, and smile breadth: unsmiling baseball players averaged 72,9 years, while players with a formal smile, 75 years. But the athletes who sincerely smiled in their official photos of 1952 lived longer than their peers and demonstrated physical and emotional well-being at the age of 80! Researchers remind: positively minded people have stronger marriages, stable personal attitudes, and in general they live happier lives, remaining in good shape for many years. Is this not a reason to encourage in yourself and your children cheerfulness and an optimistic view of the world?