Smile Facts
What facial expression does Ron Gutman call a superpower?
Smiling
What type of sports players were studied using old trading cards?
baseball players
Does smiling tend to do to stress?
decrease it
True or false: Seeing someone else smile can make you want to smile.
true
What did Ron Gutman dream of becoming when he was a child?
a superhero
Who smiles more often throughout the day, children or adults?
Children
What did researchers examine in old yearbook pictures to learn about people's future happiness?
their smiles
What natural chemicals associated with feeling good can increase when you smile?
endorphins
Why does seeing someone smile sometimes make it difficult to frown?
Smiling is contagious, and we naturally mimic facial expressions.
Besides appearing more likable and courteous, what other positive quality can smiling make a person appear to have?
competence
According to the talk, how many times a day can children smile?
up to 400 times
Which university conducted the study involving baseball players' smiles and lifespans?
Wayne state university
According to the TED Talk, smiling can help lower what important measurement related to heart health?
blood pressure
What object did researchers ask people to hold in their mouths to limit their ability to copy a smile?
a pencil
According to Gutman, smiling can provide a feeling compared to receiving approximately how much money?
$25,000
Using 3D ultrasound technology, researchers discovered that babies can smile before what major life event?
before they are born
About how long did baseball players with big smiles live on average, according to the study?
almost 80 years
What stress-related hormone does Gutman mention that smiling may help reduce?
Cortisol (adrenaline also accepted)
When people couldn't copy the smiles they saw, what became harder for them to recognize?
Whether a smile was real or fake
What university conducted a study showing that smiling makes people appear more competent?
Penn State University
What surprising observation about blind babies suggests smiling is natural rather than learned by watching others?
they smile when they hear a human voice
Name one life outcome researchers studied in the 30-year UC Berkeley yearbook project.
Marriage satisfaction or longevity, personal well-being, or how inspiring someone was to others
In the talk, smiling was compared to eating up to how many chocolate bars in terms of brain stimulation?
2,000 chocolate bars
Which famous scientist proposed that the physical act of smiling can influence how happy we feel?
Charles Darwin
What tribe in Papua New Guinea did researcher Paul Ekman study to show that smiling is recognized across different cultures?
The Fore tribe