Compassion is in the smile – Dagens Industri

Compassion sitting in the smile

                  2016-02-11 22:45
             

People imitate each other’s faces in order to be able to feel compassion and distribute each other’s feelings. When someone smiles so contagious it to all the people around, whether they are conscious of it or not, writes Dagens Nyheter.

This takes place within a few hundred milliseconds, according to new research in the United States as presented in the journal Trends in Cognitive Science.

not to be making faces and share other people’s expressions thereby obstructing the ability for compassion. For example, research has shown that boys up to a year using a pacifier is harder to recognize emotions, says first author of the study, Adrianne R Wood.

to recognize the feelings of others also seem to influence people with decreased ability to move their facial muscles, such as those injected Botox, says Adrianne R Wood DN.