What makes a smile scary enough to build a film around, Finn said, is what it hides. “We walk around with traumas, and to not let anyone in, we will wear a smile as a mask,” he said.

A Duchenne smile is the type of smile that involves your eyes, too. First identified by 19th century scientist Guillaume Duchenne, this smile is thought to be the most genuine, a smile of true ...

To start, the researchers had an artist create 27 different smiles on a computer-animated face. The smile’s angle, width, toothiness, and degree of crookedness varied across each face.

Do you smile a lot? If you’re American, the answer is almost certainly yes. In a fascinating Atlantic article, Olga Khazan reveals that Americans are by a wide margin the most frequent smilers ...

A true smile — the kind that involves eye muscles that only 1 percent or so of humans can consciously control — probably takes quite a few more muscles than a frown, while a slight, we-are-not ...

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 ...

Smile -- And The World Can Hear You, Even If You Hide Date: January 16, 2008 Source: University of Portsmouth Summary: Smiling affects how we speak, to the point that listeners can identify the ...

The smile doesn't have to be based on real emotion - faking it works. And while the research details vary, I'd recommend going with a full, true smile that involves your eyes as well as your mouth.