One is not required to — but one may be advised to — admire the smiles of certain persons. Here are the smiles of four directors of the Dental Law Partnership, in Britain, where some citizens devote much thought and worry to the appearance of their teeth: BONUS MATHEMATICAL EXERCISE: A web site called BestMastersInPsychology […]
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Smile collection in Amsterdam
A research team at The University of Amsterdam and at NEMO in Amsterdam is collecting smiles — or at least moving images of smiles. Their database currently has about 400 smiles. They present this official description: UvA-NEMO Smile Database is a large-scale smile database which has 1240 smile videos (597 spontaneous and 643 posed) from […]
Smiling : what’s it for?
What are the functions of smiling, specifically, the functions of smiling in relation to laughter? Dr. Markku Haakana [pictured here, not smiling], from the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, at the University of Helsinki, Finland, explains: “(i) Smiling can be used as a pre-laughing device: laughing together can be entered step-wise, and smiling […]
The Mystery of the European Smile
“Despite the fact that 20 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Internet users from a former Soviet bloc appear to smile less often than those from Western Europe.” This is the new finding from Assistant Professor Piotr Szarota from the Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej, in Warsaw, Poland. In his experiment, two […]
Smiling all the way
“… the degree to which one smiles in photographs taken in early life predicts the likelihood that a person will be divorced later in life.” say researchers from the Touch and Emotion Lab at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, US, a key center for facial and tactile communication studies. The lab has recently completed two long-term […]