You may have heard that forcing yourself to smile will improve your mood.
It can help, but it has to be a REAL smile. Faking a smile can actually make matters worse. A recent study from Michigan State University found that customer service workers who fake a smile throughout their day actually wind up in a worse mood and may be withdrawn and less productive. The fake smile effect was stronger for women than for men.
Smiling can improve mood but you have to mean it. If you don’t feel like smiling, try to conjure up pleasant or funny thoughts. Most of us do have the ability to trigger a genuine smile, and when we do we experience slight surge of feel-better endorphins.
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