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How Do We Know When We Are Amused?
Simple gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings. For example, being amused tends to make you smile, and smiling tend to make you feel amused. People whose face was shaped into a frown by squeezing their eyebrows together reported an enhanced emotional response to upsetting pictures. Studies of priming effects have yielded discoveries that threaten our self image as conscious and autonomous authors of our judgments and choices.