Many photographers regard smiling as a non-distinguishing facial expression.  National Geographic has reported that people remember vacations and events a happy experiences even if they weren’t as long as they reflect smiling individuals. Marianne LaFrance, a Professor of Psychology at Yale University, shared with National Geographic her thoughts, experiences and cool facts about smiles. She…

Several people have asked us to comment on a recently published and publicized study entitled “Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions” by Hillel Aviezer, et al. The Paradigm The paradigm used in Aviezer’s research involved judgments of emotion when viewing stimuli that combined different emotional reactions in different parts…

As it moves beyond a focus on disease, What can Modern Psychology Help Us to Become? For more than 60 years, psychology worked within the focus area of the disease model. That is, it was about finding out what was wrong with someone.   During that time, the disorders addressed within psychology were not treatable; however, …