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Facial Expressions : The Conflicted Smile

8/1/2018

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Being HAPPY can be Complicated
THE KEY CONCEPT : The bittersweet smile combines a distressed brow with a smiling mouth.
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Figures 1 & 2. Florian Thauvin, Player #20, inspired this blog. Take a careful look at Figure 2, the spectacular image of the emotion-drenched French Squad celebrating their victory in the 2018 World Cup.  While nearly everyone laughs or shouts with joy, their happy faces displaying  their upper teeth but not their lower (the textbook pattern with laughing), Thauvin stands out from the crowd.  As you can see in Figure 1, his upper face is clenched in the pattern most associated with crying.  For reasons that are not well understood, extreme joy can trigger reflexes associated with grief, as is obviously happening here. In such overwhelming moments, like winning a world championship, people experience a superabundance of emotional energy, and it finds outlets through a variety of channels – including physical action, like jumping for joy, and crying.  

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