British Columbia's Province Cites DePauw Research on Smiling and Divorce
May 30, 2010
May 30, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — "When you smile at someone, they almost always smile in return," notes a story published today in British Columbia's Province. "And, because facial expressions trigger corresponding feelings, the smile you get back actually changes that person's emotional state in a positive way. Maybe that's why a DePauw University study found that people whose smiles were weakest in snapshots from childhood through young adulthood were most likely to be divorced in middle or old age (one in four compared to one in 20 for the widest smilers)."
The article 
by Carol Kinsey Goman examines "smile power." Access it at the newspaper's Web site.
Dr. Hertenstein's research on communicating through touch has also received media attention. The professor was interviewed on February 23 by ABC's Diane Sawyer, the same day his work was highlighted in the New York Times. It's also been spotlighted on National Public Radio.
Visit Professor Hertenstein's Emotion Lab online by clicking here.