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Review of Literatures: Smiling causes Happiness

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    Running Head: REVIEW OF LITERATURES 1 REVIEW OF LITERATURES Smiling causes Happiness In your essay, you explore various studies on the relationship between facial expressions, specifically smiles, and happiness. How do different factors, such as gender, societal norms, and situational contexts, influence the connection between facial expressions and emotional states like happiness and sadness? In your response, consider the following:  The role of gender and societal expectations in shaping facial expressions, particularly smiling.  How situational factors, such as life events or achievements, affect happiness and expressions of emotion.  The findings from various studies (such as those by Hess et al., Niedenthal et al., and Fernandez - Dols & Ruiz - Belda) regarding the relationship between smiles and happiness.  The limitations and contributions of these studies in understanding the complex nature of facial expressions and emotions. Your response should be 750 - 1000 words

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    Running Head: REVIEW OF LITERATURES 2 Introduction In the context of happiness, we could see a great smile on the face of people that describes about their real feeling , w h ile the expression on the face of people is not attractive, it means the person is not well and not happy. On the basis of real life expression , it could be stated that a person smile, it is because that he or she is happy, and a person could frown because of his or her sad ness . A person is happy or sad, it could be justified in his or her face or corresponding facial expressions ( Ahmed, 2008). But initially there was no t a division line that could be ab l e to make the difference between expression, em o tional respon s es and their impacts on the feelings of the human being. For conduction this research study, I have selected fiv e articles that are given below. Smiling causes Happiness The first research study is conducted by Hess, Adams & Kleck (2005). In this research process, researchers focus over the emotional response of man and woman in the context of happiness and anger. In this research study, the researcher makes a hypothesis such as the anger is more appropriate for male individual and smile is effective for women are based on their perception s . For this hypothesis, the rese archer also forms t hree studies. For these studies, the researchers use different methods and different population for getting the data and information. The first study helps him to test the mediation model on the basis of man and woman along with their perceptions. For this study, they also select 25 men and 29 women to collect data. On the other hand, second study includes the vignette approach that helps the researchers to know about the conversion of expectations into prescriptive social norms. They also take the help of 151 men and 151 women.

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