3:48 Having a camera pointed at you reduces the happiness effect of smiling? So in that old TV show when they said, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera." It was just a cruel joke.
Master Therion I remember that show. You just made me feel old, which makes me sad... I'm going to watch some "Just For Laughs Gags" to make me feel young and smile again!
Smiling when I am not happy doesn't make me happier. It makes me angry. The only things that make me happier is getting away from the thing I'm unhappy with or experiencing something I enjoy. I was told my whole life that smiling makes you happy. It never has for me. This may be because im not neurotypical. I'm autistic.
In all my jobs when I had to be happy with customers I found I was usually in a better mood after "faking" being happy compared to before I started and was not looking forward to work.
I hate it when people tell me to smile. It makes me more upset. My dad tells me to smile often when I’m just having a resting face and walking around. I honestly don’t like that crap. Just let my face do it’s thing.
Ok but I mean... in the service industry you're told to smile all the time. You have to be smiling or otherwise looking happy or at least not angry during every interaction with a customer. I've heard that this emotional labour makes people very much the opposite of happy and can lead to serious stress issues over enough time. So if smiling is supposed to make you happy, how come it doesn't work on service industry workers?
There has been research on this, disappointing that SciShow didn't include it. Basically, smiling will only work for a short time to make you happier, and the amount of time spent fake smiling in retail/customer service is just too much for smiling to work. And, like you mentioned, it can make people feel worse, because of the disconnect between how you feel and what emotion you are showing. Our brains hate that kind of dissonance.
I've found that smiling when not necessarily happy can at least relieve facial tension (and relieve tension headaches that result from not realizing just how much your muscles are gripping). Just because of the whole "it takes fewer muscles to smile than to to frown" thing. And sometimes that physical sense of relief can make the expression a bit more sincere. (Kind of like reminders to check your posture and identifying places of tension elsewhere in body.)
Also because the study had been done before and it was popular, the subjects might have known the effect; causing the study to get messed up (like you said, the experiment was even in 101 phych books).
This is a very interesting hypothesis! I feel like this question ( If you smile will that make you happier? ) has been asked and bought up many times! I am glad SciShow Psych made a video on this matter. It helps me maybe make a decision on my own! Thanks for the video and I will see you next time! DFTBA!
This is a great example of solid scientific progress through experimentation, failed replication, reconsideration, and consolidation of evidence. Alright everyone let's buy some pencils!
I'd believe it. When I was a waitress and in retail, you have to check your crap at the door. So I pretended to be happy and it helped. Fake it 'til you make it lol.
I dunno, faking happy (or at least not perpetually aggravated/exhausted/misanthropic/etc.) when I worked retail just left me utterly exhausted and hating humanity as a whole by the end of the day. But to be fair, even before nearly a decade of retail I didn't really care much for being around people. :P
The interesting part is the relation between what happens on the face, what happens in the mind and how these two relate.. The part where people start applying this to get happy is the tricky one, it's like thinking positive thoughts. It can work, but only goes so far.
Could experimenters have hidden cameras to test this? Then do the full disclosure afterward obviously participants could withdraw consent if they chose then or keep it in the results?
There's a difference between being watched and feeling watched. Sure, your every move could be tracked through your phone, laptop camera, smart fridge, security cameras, dashcams, etc., but you don't think about that the vast majority of the time, you don't feel watched. And if you do, you may have other mental things to worry about than feeling a bit down.
Smiling person : look at that , what's he so happy about!??? Dull expression : damn it's not hard to smile what's his problem?! . Bottom line is people are going to have a problem either way so just live your life , smiling makes you feel better 100%
It's actually work but the thing is it won't last long and not only depends on our emotional states but it will make you very vulnerable in a worse way as possible...
Okay, but did ANY of the studies switch the participants to doing the other task and have them rate another set of comics? Because that should give a much more complete answer as to whether or not the pen grip did anything.
I had heard of this study before and decided to test it. I used to be quite depressed but doing my own version of therapy (which has nothing to do with talk to anyone or sharing my feels) I was able to not only stop being depressed I am the happiest person I know now. I even make other people happy just being around them. I have even determined, while doing my scientific thesis in college, that humans will be extinct in less than 200 years. I still laugh and smile without a moment of being down. Smiling works. I mean doesn't matter to much since we are all dead and just waiting to catch up to the fact... but at least you can be happy anyway. "you are going to suffer, but you are going to be happy about it." - Ron Weasly
a GENUINE SMILE and that shirt DESPERATELY NEED to be worn by the majority of people born and raised in MEANtown, mASSachusetts who seem to believe that frowning and being mean-spirited, color struck, hateful, and racist is acceptable and normal. i just learned the power of this simple act in helping me to...survive in such a MOSTLY unfriendly place where a GENUINE smile is mostly...unpracticed.
Bah; could be the feedback occurred merely cuz the pen mechanically primed the neurons in that region for firing; betcha you'd have the same effect if you applied a slight enough voltage to those smile muscles XP
It makes me sad that this show consistently ignores and erases neurodiversity by making broad statements about how everyone work. For example Autistic people tend to not show emotions with their bodylanguage so much until they learn that they should do so. Im not saying you have to mention that but maybe say 'most people' instead of saying everyone. I like this channel and the content on it, otherwise I wouldnt care enough to comment. which I have on several vidoes in the past about the same thing.
Okay this is fascinating. People with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, like myself, have poor proprioception. I have to wonder what this means for the (hypothesized) facial feedback systems of people with EDS. Also, I’m curious if the facial feedback system can be impaired by things like trigeminal neuralgia, Bell’s palsy, or a stroke.
Is this just a case of "When you're happy, it's easier to be even happier"? Likewise with how when people aren't happy, it doesn't take much to make them even less happy. Has this been covered in a video? I think it should be.
So I'm curious, does "Be NiCe" actually result in a valid molecule that exists in nature, or is in common use in chemistry? It's a cute shirt, but would be even better if it's a real thing :) I tried finding a website to look up molecules by their elements, but there doesn't seem to exist such a thing :(
Under certain conditions, nickel can form alloys with beryllium and with cerium, but I'm not sure these three would necessarily all go together. However, a hypothetical BeNiCe molecule would be very...nice :)
So you are saying that a human can be in either a happy or a sad state before observation and when human is observed it is random which state they fall into? Are humans anti-relativistic?
Fibromylagia?... Why do women get it more than men as well? There is apparently evidence of differences observed in activity in the brain of people with fibromylagia, as well as approaches to mental health that can ease the symptoms to some degree. Fibromylagia sucks anyway.
Yeah, but when I smile.. everyone else feels very, very nervous...
Hahahah 😈
They are nervous because they aren't use to happy people
So what , don't worry what they think , if you don't smile they will have something to say too. Keep smiling.
"Botox can relieve depression symptoms" so money CAN buy happiness?
Maxes out at 75k
3:48 Having a camera pointed at you reduces the happiness effect of smiling?
So in that old TV show when they said, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera." It was just a cruel joke.
Master Therion
I remember that show. You just made me feel old, which makes me sad... I'm going to watch some "Just For Laughs Gags" to make me feel young and smile again!
Gravijta
I remember it too (I'm 44) I ain't no "spring chicken" either ;)
So you're a 44 year old dude making jokes. That explains the dad jokes. Checks out. Continue, good sir.
Yeah, Im feeling this with online class
Smiling when I am not happy doesn't make me happier. It makes me angry. The only things that make me happier is getting away from the thing I'm unhappy with or experiencing something I enjoy. I was told my whole life that smiling makes you happy. It never has for me. This may be because im not neurotypical. I'm autistic.
It makes me sad when I do it. I'm also not neurotypical.
Maybe smiling when you aren't happy is focusing you on why you aren't happy.
In all my jobs when I had to be happy with customers I found I was usually in a better mood after "faking" being happy compared to before I started and was not looking forward to work.
I do it when I’m about to cry in public
Doesn’t do the trick for me...
You just look desperate.
Ok, I look crazy... and I feel crazy...
If someone thinks you're crazy because you're smiling, they're crazy
I hate it when people tell me to smile. It makes me more upset. My dad tells me to smile often when I’m just having a resting face and walking around. I honestly don’t like that crap. Just let my face do it’s thing.
Mine is apparently more of a “Resting bi*ch face” or a “Resting sad face”
Ok but I mean... in the service industry you're told to smile all the time. You have to be smiling or otherwise looking happy or at least not angry during every interaction with a customer. I've heard that this emotional labour makes people very much the opposite of happy and can lead to serious stress issues over enough time. So if smiling is supposed to make you happy, how come it doesn't work on service industry workers?
Maybe its cause you're obligated to do it
And you can't forget that so it causes stress? I don't know
There has been research on this, disappointing that SciShow didn't include it. Basically, smiling will only work for a short time to make you happier, and the amount of time spent fake smiling in retail/customer service is just too much for smiling to work. And, like you mentioned, it can make people feel worse, because of the disconnect between how you feel and what emotion you are showing. Our brains hate that kind of dissonance.
and seeing this on my notification put a smile on my face :)
I smile almost all day
I'm happy all the time lol
When I smile when I'm sad it makes me sadder
I've found that smiling when not necessarily happy can at least relieve facial tension (and relieve tension headaches that result from not realizing just how much your muscles are gripping). Just because of the whole "it takes fewer muscles to smile than to to frown" thing.
And sometimes that physical sense of relief can make the expression a bit more sincere.
(Kind of like reminders to check your posture and identifying places of tension elsewhere in body.)
Also because the study had been done before and it was popular, the subjects might have known the effect; causing the study to get messed up (like you said, the experiment was even in 101 phych books).
I’d be very curious to see tests on people with chronic pain who have to maintain a certain level of appearances or on people with depression.
This is a very interesting hypothesis! I feel like this question ( If you smile will that make you happier? ) has been asked and bought up many times! I am glad SciShow Psych made a video on this matter. It helps me maybe make a decision on my own! Thanks for the video and I will see you next time! DFTBA!
And what a beautiful smile to tell me all about it. Smiling already.
This is a great example of solid scientific progress through experimentation, failed replication, reconsideration, and consolidation of evidence. Alright everyone let's buy some pencils!
I saw this in Vsauce's Mind Field. It's was fantastic!
This is why service industry workers are the happiest people on Earth. All that smiling.
No, they know they are faking a smile because someone ordered them too. This likely grinds them down.
@@kensmith5694 Sarcasm meter broken? ;-)
Not entirely but I wanted to get the "grinds them down" thing in there.
Aw man, I was just about to make a video on this topic! Great video as always, I'll have to be quicker next time 😉
Brit's t-shirts are always so awsomely funny and punny and smunny (smart funny) lol
I'd believe it. When I was a waitress and in retail, you have to check your crap at the door. So I pretended to be happy and it helped. Fake it 'til you make it lol.
I dunno, faking happy (or at least not perpetually aggravated/exhausted/misanthropic/etc.) when I worked retail just left me utterly exhausted and hating humanity as a whole by the end of the day. But to be fair, even before nearly a decade of retail I didn't really care much for being around people. :P
i smile all the time for no reason
i get quite alot of confused comments by friends because they think there is something wrong with their stuff
The interesting part is the relation between what happens on the face, what happens in the mind and how these two relate.. The part where people start applying this to get happy is the tricky one, it's like thinking positive thoughts. It can work, but only goes so far.
Could experimenters have hidden cameras to test this? Then do the full disclosure afterward obviously participants could withdraw consent if they chose then or keep it in the results?
There is this russian guy that does 12 hour sitting and smiling videos. He must be the happiest man alive
I've been upset and crying all day... Are you reading my mind, SciShow Psych?
Eh fake it till you make it.
We're always being watched by cameras. So no point in smiling anymore.
There's a difference between being watched and feeling watched. Sure, your every move could be tracked through your phone, laptop camera, smart fridge, security cameras, dashcams, etc., but you don't think about that the vast majority of the time, you don't feel watched. And if you do, you may have other mental things to worry about than feeling a bit down.
What came first, the chicken nuggets, or the smile on my face? :D
Gravitja
You know what makes a rooster smile? Chicken strips.
Gravijta chickens don't have breasts (as in the milk producing kind.) They're birds, and birds are reptiles, thus they don't produce milk.
I’m gonna take this and run with it.
Smiling person : look at that , what's he so happy about!???
Dull expression : damn it's not hard to smile what's his problem?! .
Bottom line is people are going to have a problem either way so just live your life , smiling makes you feel better 100%
I love that shirt. So cute.
I’m in love with that T-shirt!
It's actually work but the thing is it won't last long and not only depends on our emotional states but it will make you very vulnerable in a worse way as possible...
Off topic - Love the t-shirt!
If you're talking about Participants being watched and how that effects performance, you might as well make an episode about the Hawthorne Effect!
Reminds me on the tip to make fake smile at yourself in the mirror. After seeing myself making that stupid smile, I start smiling for real :-D
The problem for me is a non-happy smile is not the same expression as a happy smile. Therefore, a non-happy smile cannot make me happy.
Nice material! :D
Title instantly made me remember Mind Field!
Your skin looks really good today!
I love your shirt!
One phrase that illustrates the Scientists Copout Hypothesis: "more research is needed"
thank you!
i was poker facing until u showed the slow zoom on a blank expression, then cracked up XD
Woah I just learned about this in one of my business classes. It's why they tell you to smile when answering the phone, right?
I love the shirt and of course how you present science about psychology!
Okay, but did ANY of the studies switch the participants to doing the other task and have them rate another set of comics? Because that should give a much more complete answer as to whether or not the pen grip did anything.
Smokey Robinson sang a song about it, "Tears of a Clown"
He seems to suggest that the facade doesn't work. I tend to agree.
Apparently the only emotion I communicate well is anger. *shrug*
Should do an episode on ASD and aspergers
Ok, next, do it with a *hidden* camera
I had heard of this study before and decided to test it. I used to be quite depressed but doing my own version of therapy (which has nothing to do with talk to anyone or sharing my feels) I was able to not only stop being depressed I am the happiest person I know now. I even make other people happy just being around them. I have even determined, while doing my scientific thesis in college, that humans will be extinct in less than 200 years. I still laugh and smile without a moment of being down. Smiling works. I mean doesn't matter to much since we are all dead and just waiting to catch up to the fact... but at least you can be happy anyway. "you are going to suffer, but you are going to be happy about it." - Ron Weasly
a GENUINE SMILE and that shirt DESPERATELY NEED to be worn by the majority of people born and raised in MEANtown, mASSachusetts who seem to believe that frowning and being mean-spirited, color struck, hateful, and racist is acceptable and normal.
i just learned the power of this simple act in helping me to...survive in such a MOSTLY unfriendly place where a GENUINE smile is mostly...unpracticed.
Bah; could be the feedback occurred merely cuz the pen mechanically primed the neurons in that region for firing; betcha you'd have the same effect if you applied a slight enough voltage to those smile muscles XP
I have to shear this in google?
But If I smile while not feeling like smiling, doesn't the moments I use to smile become less smileworthy?
It makes me sad that this show consistently ignores and erases neurodiversity by making broad statements about how everyone work. For example Autistic people tend to not show emotions with their bodylanguage so much until they learn that they should do so. Im not saying you have to mention that but maybe say 'most people' instead of saying everyone.
I like this channel and the content on it, otherwise I wouldnt care enough to comment. which I have on several vidoes in the past about the same thing.
Tacos make me smile
See, ladies? When random guys tells you to "smile", they're just trying to make you happy.
Always try to keep a smile on your face (It probably helps)😁😀😀😁
Okay this is fascinating. People with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, like myself, have poor proprioception. I have to wonder what this means for the (hypothesized) facial feedback systems of people with EDS. Also, I’m curious if the facial feedback system can be impaired by things like trigeminal neuralgia, Bell’s palsy, or a stroke.
You can also get the same effect from consuming copious amounts of alcohol.
So... Fake it til you make it?
When this was tested in 20 labs in 2016, none of it worked.
Needles in the face definitely won't make me any happier
i love your shirt
I actually started this on the first day of school, part of my personal push to have a PMA
Is this just a case of "When you're happy, it's easier to be even happier"? Likewise with how when people aren't happy, it doesn't take much to make them even less happy. Has this been covered in a video? I think it should be.
She looks so much like Brie Larson it's INSANE.
When i smile i get depressed cuz i look ugly lol
Did they use a hidden camera?
Now we just need to get this news to all the clinically depressed people...
Can’t they just measure the level of endorphins and serotonin etc ? Measuring these facts are more close to science than asking how you feel
Unrelated question: How does informed consent affect confirmation bias?
The episode of mind field by Micheal from vsauce replicated this experiment with similar results.
Unless you have blunted affect.
Botox probably makes me feel less depressed because I'm not getting insanity inducing headaches.
You should add a Rhenium button to that shirt!
So I'm curious, does "Be NiCe" actually result in a valid molecule that exists in nature, or is in common use in chemistry? It's a cute shirt, but would be even better if it's a real thing :)
I tried finding a website to look up molecules by their elements, but there doesn't seem to exist such a thing :(
Under certain conditions, nickel can form alloys with beryllium and with cerium, but I'm not sure these three would necessarily all go together. However, a hypothetical BeNiCe molecule would be very...nice :)
Yas
I AM HERE!
So you are saying that a human can be in either a happy or a sad state before observation and when human is observed it is random which state they fall into? Are humans anti-relativistic?
_thumbnail tho_
0:28 _woht?!_
*Be NiCe* hahaha, good one.
What is going on with her hair?
💙
Smile mask syndrome mentioned?
Well, maybe not...
That would have been interesting, thank you
Can you do one on why anti jokes are funny
Guess BoJack was right then.
this video is what helped me get over my first breakup in a day
Fibromylagia?... Why do women get it more than men as well? There is apparently evidence of differences observed in activity in the brain of people with fibromylagia, as well as approaches to mental health that can ease the symptoms to some degree. Fibromylagia sucks anyway.
Soooooo pretty
I thought it was just a myth
Smiling is an easy way to feel better.
Ello.
Brit kinda looks like Brie Larson