Research shows a 20-second fake smile ‘improves physiology during acute stress, improves stress recover, and reduces illness ...

My mom's positivity is pervasive. When I was a teenager, my parents took my sister and me on a backpacking canoe trip in the Adirondacks. It wasn't the sort of thing we did often, and our heavy canoe ...

Within 400 milliseconds, your brain and face begin responding to another person's smile, setting off a cascade that researchers are only beginning to understand.

Smiling is credited with everything from building rapport to stimulating approach behavior to improving the persuasiveness of social media influencers.[i] Even drawing a smile on the back of a check ...

Created by Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack, Smiling Friends follows the employees of a charitable company that is tasked with bringing joy to its clients by any means necessary. There’s pessimistic ...

After joking a bit of whether or not they should tell us the “truth,” Michael Cusack explained, “It’s funny, because we asked ourselves the same question. From the beginning, we always wanted to do a ...

It’s Friday, which may prompt a smile from you because it’s, you know, Friday. And “Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend,” as that 2011 Rebecca Black song goes. But on this particular Friday, ...

A new study reveals that supporters of President Donald Trump, and of conservative politics more generally, tend to interpret ...

A German YouTuber explains why Germans don't smile at strangers, and the cultural reasoning is more interesting than you'd ...