Newsweek: How Botox May Really Keep Us From Feeling Sad.
“According to an amusing little study, by paralyzing the frown muscles that ordinarily are engaged when we feel angry, Botox short-circuits the emotion itself. It’s a version of the classic finding in psychology that facial expressions can produce the very emotion they usually reflect. Called the facial feedback hypothesis, it implies that forcing your lips and cheeks into a smile can make you feel happy and scowling can make you feel annoyed, at least a little.” You could also, as Steve Martin famously recommended to Nixon, learn to play the banjo. Can’t be sad or mad on a banjo.
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