Stress-Free City: Experience with Smile Communications in Lagos, Nigeria.

This is an avenue to share stressful experiences in Lagos and find solutions on how to enjoy a more comfy city.

Study: Forcing a smile genuinely decreases stress

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PROBLEM: Happiness makes us smile, but can smiling make us happy? Even if it's a fake smile, because your mouth is propped open by chopsticks? There's the standard smile, which remains located in the muscles surrounding the mouth, and the genuine (or Duchenne) smile, which spreads to the eyes and, at least anecdotally, both looks and feels warmer and more natural. Does one work better than the other?