Live
- Hyderabad Achieves 26% Reduction in PM10 Levels in 2023-24, Improving Air Quality
- Tired And Stressed As A Parent? Try These Easy Life Hacks
- Supreme Court issues notice on PIL seeking directions to integrate legal education, self-defence training into school curriculum
- Bengal school jobs case: Arpita Mukherjee granted bail; new HC Bench to look into Partha Chatterjee's plea
- Working to provide social security for gig and platform workers: Govt
- Bangladesh records 11 dengue deaths, toll rises to 459
- Vocera Raises $500K from Y Combinator to Revolutionize Voice AI Testing and Evaluation
- GQG Partners Refuses to Sell Adani Stocks Despite Bribery Scandal and 26% Loss
- Bihar: Four persons including girl injured in post bypolls violence in Gaya
- Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Enters Record Book
How to build new relationships: Smile Please
Highlights
A new research has indicated that smiling at one person can always help to strike up a new relationship.
A new research has indicated that smiling at one person can always help to strike up a new relationship. 
According to the study, it works because people are much more attuned to positive emotions when forming new bonds than they are to negative ones such as anger, contempt or sadness.
The study led by Belinda Campos of the University of California, Irvine, in the US that sheds light on how relationships are formed and maintained.
Campos' team conducted two studies to test the role that positive emotions, which are considered signals of affiliation and cooperation, play in relationships and showed that dating couples were able to quite accurately track their partners' positive emotions.
In the second test, people tended to feel closer to strangers who displayed positive emotions and the results showed that people are much more aware of others' positive emotions than their negative ones. Also, when finding themselves in situations where new relationships can be formed, humans tune into the positive almost instinctively. A display of awe especially draws strangers to one another.
Campos explained that people predominantly display positive emotions by giving a so-called Duchenne smile. This distinct smile involves the simultaneous movement of two facial muscles around the eyes and cheeks, and is primarily produced when people are sincere and happy.
The study is published in Springer's journal Motivation and Emotion.
Next Story
ADVERTISEMENT
