But if you're using those smiles as a way to mask anxiety or pretend depression symptoms aren't present, that's entirely different. Faking a smile until you make it real could be one of these minor, quirky shifts that ends up having an actual positive effect, adds Dimitriu.
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He was concerned that newspaper cartoons would not have packed the same humor punch these days that they did in the Midwest of the s. The filming, he said, was another problem: It could be that filming made participants unusually self-conscious, affecting their experience of the task. A method that fails might have been a bad test of the hypothesis, but the hypothesis is really what counts. Perhaps, Strack argued, his exact methods from the s are no longer the best way to test that. What would the differences tell us about facial feedback and when it comes into play?
But similar critiques of massive replications come from inside the movement. Psychologist Tal Yarkoni, an ardent reformer, thinks that large-scale research efforts would do more good if they were used to test a huge array of different ways of getting at a question. But he does think a failed replication like the one he led shifts the burden of proof. Now, he says, proponents of the facial feedback hypothesis should be the ones coming to the table with new evidence.
Multi-lab studies can look large and impressive, said psychologist Charles Ebersole, who coordinated two Many Labs projects in grad school. W hen Wagenmakers and his colleagues published their replication study in , Coles was digging deeply into the facial feedback literature. He planned to combine all of the existing literature into a giant analysis that could give a picture of the whole field.
Was there really something promising going on with the facial feedback hypothesis? Or did the experiments that found a big fat zero cancel out the exciting findings? He was thrilled to be able to throw so much new data from 17 replication efforts into the pot. He came up from his deep dive with intriguing findings: Overall, across hundreds of results, there was a small but reliable facial feedback effect.
This left a new uncertainty hanging over the facial feedback hypothesis. The technique he used, called a meta-analysis, comes with its own problems. So he set about designing a different kind of multi-lab collaboration. He wanted not just to replicate the original study, but to test it in a new way. Further, the study, which reviewed around 50 years of data, suggested that if people were to fake a smile, only seven would feel happier as a result, and even for those seven, the changes in mood would be very slight.
Faking a smile is ultimately about making someone else more comfortable with your true emotions: the myth that someone should fake a smile in order to be happier draws attention away this power dynamic. These damaging power plays are highlighted in rising cultural rejections of the facial feedback myth. Making other people feel comfortable with your own faked smile is also an expectation that shapes customer service professions.
However, these performances are dangerous for workers.
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