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Comment author: handoflixue 28 July 2011 01:32:02AM 4 points [-]

If you smile when you would not ordinarily smile, you’re projecting a false persona

Aye, but if you learn to smile as an ordinary action, you're just changing your true persona.

Thanks to the way humans are wired, a habit of regularly faking smiles will generally lead to a person who genuinely smiles a lot. The exceptions seem to generally be those who have an investment in the smiles staying fake.

Comment author: RobertLumley 28 July 2011 01:44:26AM 3 points [-]

Yes, but that wasn't the way it was presented. Or at least not how I read it.

Comment author: handoflixue 28 July 2011 03:59:02AM 0 points [-]

I will readily concede I am tact-filtering here. I leave it to him to say if it's accurate, but it's what I've done in similar situations, so I'll give him the benefit of the tact-filter :)

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