When did you last smile at someone you didn’t really know?

02/08/2011 by Christophe.

From some research I read a few days ago, it seems women smile on average 5 to 6 times more than men… it would be interesting to know why this is the case - why do women smile more than men?

Why do we smile?

We can generalise and say that it’s an external representation of what we’re feeling inside about what we’re experiencing at that moment, or it could be when we’re remembering great memories. If you start thinking about all the wonderful moments that fill up your life, you probably do begin to feel differently and the more you recall them, the bigger the feeling gets.. you are probably smiling already.

Do we always smile when we are happy?

Well, apparently we also smile when we feel embarrassed, under stress, uncomfortable or because it is part of what we do. Just imagine what it’s like for people who work in hotels, restaurants, shops… when you have to deal with people. So if there are many different reasons why we smile, why do we still smile? What does it do? And do different smiles affect us differently?

It’s easy to imagine that there must be a difference between smiling because we feel like it and smiling because we have to. And the difference is only, maybe, how we are responding. I personally am more attracted to someone who smile because they feel like it..

So when was the last time you smiled at someone because you felt like it instead of feeling you had to?

What difference would it make to our surrounding if we smiled more often and we did it because we wanted to? How much more easily would we communicate with people around us? How do people respond when you are smiling?

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