The mood of a person depends on his posture and facial expressions.
Researchers from the Netherlands denied one hypothesis facial feedback facial feedback hypothesis), which is one of the most important topics in psychology. This is stated in an article published in the scientific journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
According to the hypothesis of facial feedback, the mood of a person depends on his posture and facial expressions. The first such assumption was formulated in the nineteenth century American philosopher and psychologist William James. Subsequently, there have been many studies confirming this hypothesis.
One of the most important research on the topic was completed in 1988. In it, the psychologists asked the subjects to smile by holding between the teeth a pencil. As a result of their smile was pretty wide, and the subjects noted improvement in their own mood. In addition, they were asked to frown and clamp the pencil lips — in this case, the response to stimuli was less positive.
The scientists conducted a study with a much larger sample of subjects and found that old conclusions are wrong and the presence of the pencil in your mouth has no effect on a person’s mood. The results of this work are acknowledged and lead author of the original article, 1988.
In 2015 in the framework of the project reproducibility” (Reproducibility Project), the researchers repeated a hundred classic psychological studies, but were able to reproduce the results of only two thirds from the entire array.
