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Do facial expressions influence our emotional state?
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
English - February 05, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScience radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When we’re happy, our bodies become flooded with dopamine and serotonin, two types of neurotransmitters in the brain; our hearts might even beat faster and maybe, we even muster a smile.
But does it work the other way? Can contorting our faces into a smile give us that chemical hit that actually makes us feel good?
Nicholas A. Coles from the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University joins