The many faces of smiles

Rychlowska, Magdalena, Manstead, Antony S. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-2096 and van der Schalk, Job 2019. The many faces of smiles. Hess, Ursula and Hareli, Shlomo, eds. The Social Nature of Emotion Expression: What Emotions Can Tell Us About the World, Springer, Cham, pp. 227-245. (10.1007/978-3-030-32968-6_13)

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Abstract

Smiles are ubiquitous. We often think of them as facial expressions communicating joy and positive feelings but a closer examination reveals that people smile in a wide variety of situations – including stressful and negative ones. Moreover, a growing body of literature reveals that the meaning and the social consequences of smiles are largely influenced by the context in which these expressions appear. The present chapter explores what smiles can tell us about people and how smiles are perceived. We first review existing evidence on positive interpersonal effects of smiling. However, as we show in the second part of the chapter, these effects depend on the morphology of smiles and are especially strong for smiles perceived as genuine and rewarding. Finally, we discuss research documenting that the interpretation of smiles depends on the context, including the expresser, the perceiver, and the situation in which the smile is displayed. In sum, the chapter highlights the complexity of smiles as social signals and the necessity of considering context in research on smiles and their social consequences.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Springer, Cham
ISBN:	9783030329679
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 February 2021
Date of Acceptance:	12 May 2019
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138139

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