You should commit to making others smile every day of the week. A friend passed along a Coca-Cola ad done by a Belgian advertising agency with the tagline, “Happiness starts with a smile.” The ...

Why Do We Do It? So why do we begin to smile, or laugh nervously, when we feel fear or uneasiness? If we look at our evolutionary history, we start smiling because we recognize that we’re in a ...

Quick to laugh or smile? It may be in your genes Date: June 1, 2015 ... In the first experiment, young adults were shown cartoons from "The Far Side" by Gary Larson and The New Yorker.

Why do some people immediately burst into laughter after a humorous moment, while others can barely crack a smile? New research examining emotional reactivity suggests one of the answers may lie ...