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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (January 21, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393344223
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393344226
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2.0 out of 5 starsI think there is enough material in this book for a great magazine article
By Amazon Customer on October 9, 2015
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Can you write a whole book about smiling? Not judging by this book. Ms LaFrance writes well, but there just isn't enough to say about smiling. Eventually she runs out of things to say about smiling and writes about tangential topics. I think there is enough material in this book for a great magazine article, but not for a book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Science Behind Facial Expressions
By Stephen on December 8, 2013
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Excellent. Required reading if you are interested in interpersonal communication, and who isn't? This is not, however, a how-to book. Rather, it is an informative and clearly written discussion of the many ways that smiles are used, not only in our own culture, but around the world as well. Some of the conclusions are surprising. For example, the way smiles are used is not necessarily universal at all. One would do well to keep that in mind when traveling abroad, particularly in Japan.

Though she's an academic, Ms. LaFrance never makes one strain to follow, say, overly formal language. I also appreciated her occasional touches of humor. The book cites many, many studies, but always stays lively and never drags on that account. All in all, a most enjoyable read and one I'm sure I'll be returning to again. The title on the paperback edition has been changed to Why Smile: The Science Behind Facial Expressions.
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4.0 out of 5 starsHow the smile says much more than we realize-or care to admit
By Didaskalex VINE VOICE on September 4, 2011
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"Marianne LaFrance drew on her own research and recent findings in a variety of scientific disciplines. Her Lip Service constantly surprises with its evidence that emotions that we convey in nanoseconds have such powerful social consequences. Putting a new face on that familiar grin."

Lip service, is defined by online dictionaries as, "An avowal of advocacy, adherence, or allegiance expressed in words but not backed by deeds," or "Verbal expression of agreement or allegiance, unsupported by real conviction or action; hypocritical respect." The author recent findings in a variety of scientific disciplines, are described in the book which explores much more as, "Smiles begin at the lips, but they almost stop there." Their impact can be felt as flirtation or smirky insult; a cheerful affirmation or a mark of gutsy transcendence.

Smiles are defined as socially motivated acts of courtesy and inter-human approach, essential for personal and traditional well-being, "with consequences," adds LaFrance, Yale social psychologist. She approaches here, a wide range of related psychological and cultural, as well as biological issues to outline the various types of smiles and how to identify and react to them; the welcoming smiles of salespeople, the assuring smile of your pastor, and the manipulative ones of elected officials. LaFrance is particularly interested in analyzing smiling as a powerful tool used on different levels power assured persons smile when they feel like it, while power deprived people when they have to.

She considers the cultural differences in how often people smile and what public smiles may express.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsIt takes more muscles to frown
By mavo on December 9, 2015
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A French scientist claims to have discovered a second portrait of a woman hidden beneath Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa. An analysis of people shows they believe that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry.
Ron Gutman's TED talk said he studied yearbook photos to determine success and baseball cards to research longevity. What is the common denominator? Smiles. Those who smiled in the baseball pic lived to the age of 80 on average. The non-smilers, 72.
I watched this because Ivanka Trump suggested it. It led me to read "Lip Service."
Yearbook photo studies find that women who displayed more intense smiles in their college yearbook were more content with their lives many years later. They had fewer psychological and physical problems and were more satisfied in their marriages.
People who smile draw others to them. The predisposition to be positive leads to more and stronger social bonds, which in turn provides lifelong support.
The face has the only skeletal muscles of the body that are used, not to move ourselves, but to move others.
Brides do it. Teasers do it, salespeople, infants, politicians, flirts, celebs do it.
An article in the British Medical Journal reported that in social networks, happiness extends up to two people beyond the first. When you smile and feel in good spirits, a friend of a friend is slightly more likely to feel in good spirits as well. Three degrees of happiness.
William James went so far as to propose that when we are happy, it is because we are smiling and when we are sad, it is because we are crying. Facial expressions and bodily changes are the emotions, not mere reflections of them.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsLIP SERVICE...WITH A SMILE
By GF on February 9, 2012
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So what can you write about a simple smile? Apparently, a lot. Marianne LaFrance, a psychology professor at Yale, has assembled a body of work that proves a smile is not so simple. In fact, she dissects the science of a smile; including the latest research in psychology, medicine, anthropology, brain science, and computer science to move you beyond the obvious intepretations of a smile; ultimately answering the question which motivated her research: how and when do people smile?

I found the information about the Duchenne smile (a genuine smile) versus the non-Duchenne smile to be fascinating. More importanlty, the fact that a genuine smile emanates from the eyes and not the lips, intensified my interest. Yes, women smile more, but is that because they are socially conditioned to smile? Or is it that their zygomaticus major muscle (which controls smiling) is significantlty thicker in women than in men? The book frames smiling in a social/gender context that will make you do some self-reflection.Read more ›
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