Facial Expressions

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This paper is a research report on an experiment in whether facial expression influences emotions, following the view of many that research supports the idea of the facial feedback hypothesis that holds that making a facial expression can alter the individual's subjective feelings in the direction of that feeling represented by the facial expression. It examines how some believe that making such a facial expression can actually cause the related emotion, while others hold that it can only intensify that emotion that is already felt.

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"Research has long been conducted on the connection between expressive behavior and the emotion experienced, much of it based on facial expressions and what they really mean. This research considers some of what has been developed in the literature regarding this topic and then tests the connection between facial expressions and emotions experienced, serving as a test of the facial feedback hypothesis that holds that making a facial expression can alter the individual's subjective feelings in the direction of that feeling represented by the facial expression. In simpler terms, if you smile, you begin to feel happier. Some believe that making such a facial expression can actually cause the related emotion, while others hold that it can only intensify that emotion that is already felt."

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