{"id":101425,"date":"2014-08-08T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=101425"},"modified":"2014-08-08T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:14:34","slug":"why-smiling-wont-help-if-you-are-feeling-miserable-experts-advise-letting-unhappiness-lift-before-attempting-grin-to-stop-brain-linking-happy-act-to-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=101425","title":{"rendered":"Why smiling won\u2019t help if you are feeling miserable: Experts advise letting unhappiness lift before attempting grin to stop brain linking happy act to sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next time you think about cheering somebody up when they are upset, perhaps it might be best to just leave them alone.<\/p>\n

Trying to make somebody smile when they are miserable could actually make them feel worse, a study has found.<\/p>\n

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If you force a friend to grin when they are in a bad mood then their brain starts to associate it with sadness instead of joy.<\/p>\n

And next time they smile it could bring back miserable memories instead of lifting the bad mood.<\/p>\n

It was carried out by Anirban Mukhopadhyay, an associate professor of marketing at Hong Kong University Science and Technology, who said you should wait until your unhappiness lifts before attempting a grin.<\/p>\n

The study results showed that if you are faking a smile then it won\u2019t cheer you up and that you are just using it to \u2018mask\u2019 your inner sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next time you think about cheering somebody up when they are upset, perhaps it might…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,224],"tags":[13257,13258],"class_list":["post-101425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-smile","tag-study","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}