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The Felicity factor
LeeAnn Harker and Dacher Keltner, at the University of
California, Berkeley, studied a college yearbook, looking at the
faces of every woman and identifying those that had genuine
smiles. They controlled their study for factors like physical
attractiveness and found that observers rated women displaying
more positive emotion as having more attractive personalities.
Most signicantly for us, these positive emotional expressions
predicted good outcomes in marriage and in personal wellbeing
up to 30 years later.
This is one study among many suggesting that happy people
tend to hav ...