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How Do We Know Ourselves?

Under the Cortex

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The Facial Feedback Effect

The way we feel something has a lot to do with what our muscles do and how we perceive them acting. If you can induce people to make a frowning expression by telling them to pull their brows together, they're in a grumpier mood. Whereas if you can manipulate them into a facial expression of smiling, they feel happier. So it seems that when frowning, we feel sadder when scowling, we feel angrier when smiling, we feel happier. But this is valid also for emotions.

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