Power and Status Affect a Smile

    Smile and get replies smile, even from people we do not know, can make the heart become brighter. However, it turns out a person's tendency to respond to a smile depending on the position or status of their power.
The study, led by Evan Carr of the University of California included 55 participants who were divided into two groups. Participants in one group were instructed to write an essay describing both events in their lives, while the second group wrote about negative experiences. The researchers instructed the volunteers to write the essay as a way to trigger the emergence of positive and negative feelings.
Volunteers are also connected to a monitor to measure the electrical stimulation of their faces when writing essays. Monitor the control measures ygomaticus majo lip movements related to smiles, and corrugator supercilii that controls frown on his brow. In addition, the volunteers were shown a video of people also have high power and those who are considered to have low status.
The study, published in the Society of Neuroscience conference revealed that people who feel powerful tend to smile in response to a person's smile when the person smiles were perceived as less powerful or lower status.
Conversely, if a person is considered to be more powerful smile, then they do not respond to her smile. People who consider themselves less power have a tendency to respond to a smile on anyone.
Carr believes the smile back on others as a way to show the status of their own. People who hold a smile on others who they consider more powerful is the way to avoid suspicion exhibitionist attitude.
While people who consider themselves less powerful smile back as a way to show submission. In addition, Carr found that people tend to frown back to the person who frowned at him, regardless of power or status.