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The science behind the smile
The document summarizes research on happiness. It discusses how psychologists, economists, and neuroscientists study happiness to understand what people feel, value, and experience. Key findings include that couples and healthy people tend to be happier than others. While smiles can serve strategic purposes, genuine smiles may promote longevity. Research also links happiness with productivity, motivation, and problem-solving. The talks explores what kinds of happiness people should pursue and whether this research will actually make people happier.
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- 2. The science behind thesmile Presented by : DEBANSHU GHOSH UTSHO CHOWDHURY GOPAL KUMAR MOUMITA ROY
- 3. Science will soonbe able to tell us how to live the lives we want, but it will never tell us what kind of lives we should want to live. That will be for us to decide.
- 4. Happiness research has becomea hot topic in the past 20 years
- 5. Peoples to doscientific research for happiness… •Psychologists want to understand what people feel •Economists want to know what people value •Neuroscientists want to
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- 7. What researchers discover about happiness… •Couples • Rich man poor man • Healthy and sick people
- 8. Not All SmilesAre Created Equal… • Get others to trust you • Smile for leniency • Recover from social slipups • Laugh off the hurt • Hide what you really think • Smile for longevity
- 9. Happiness & Productivity… “Ifyou don’t get this to me by Friday, you’re fired” “I don’t think most people could get this done by Friday. But I have full faith and confidence that you can. And it’s hugely important to the entire team.”
- 10. Secret behind thesmile… What kind of happiness should we want? For example, do we want the average happiness of our moments to be as large as possible, or do we want the sum of our happy moments to be as large as possible?
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- 13. A Focused Mindis a Happy Mind… • Happy people work better with others • Happy people are more creative • Happy people fix problems instead of complaining about them • Happy people are way more motivated • Happy people worry less about making mistakes and consequently make fewer mistakes
- 14. Will all thisresearch ultimately make us happier??? What kind of happiness should we want!!
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