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My research throughout the semester related to mental wellness, primarily focused on the effects of smiling and ways to use it to improve said wellness. I wanted to focus on this due to my own delcining mental state throughout the year of 2021-2024. A result of many different situations from the pandemic to simply being overloaded with work and issues among friends.
The Sources
Stibich, Mark. “Top 10 Reasons You Should Smile Every Day.” Verywell Mind, Verywellmind, 17 Feb. 2023, www.verywellmind.com/top-reasons-to-smile-every-day-2223755 .
This website explained the positive effects of smiling
Zeyad Raafat. “Top 10 Facts about How Smiles Change Lives.” GLO Science, 26 Jan. 2024, gloscience.com/blogs/blog/top-10-facts-about-how-smiles-change-lives. Accessed 7 May 2025.
This website also explained postive effects of smiling.
7qe7IID049AYuvs. “The Power of a Genuine Smile: Enhancing Your Social Interactions | Dentist.” Soft Touch Dentistry, 20 June 2024, sacramentofamilydentist.com/the-power-of-a-genuine-smile-enhancing-your-social-interactions/.
This website focused on the effects of a genuine smile.
Cox, Jen. “10 Smiling Animals to Make You Smile.” River Island, 2025, www.riverisland.com/us/editorial/10-smiling-animals-to-make-you-smile. Accessed 7 May 2025.
This website gave information of different animals that smile.
Cox, Jen. “10 Smiling Animals to Make You Smile.” River Island, 2025, www.riverisland.com/us/editorial/10-smiling-animals-to-make-you-smile. Accessed 7 May 2025.
Crutchfield, Dr Bill. “5 Fun Facts about Smiling.” Orthodontics by Crutchfield, 9 Apr. 2021, orthodonticsbycrutchfield.com/5-fun-facts-about-smiling/. Accessed 7 May 2025.
More facts about smiling
Del Rey Dental, Bonita. “Interesting Facts about Your Smile | Bonita Del Rey.” Bonita Del Rey Dental Care, 10 May 2018, www.bonitadelrey.com/blog/interesting-facts-smile/. Accessed 7 May 2025.
More facts about smiling
Sexton, Dr. Greg. “10 Surprising Facts about Smiles.” Gregsextondds.com, 9 Mar. 2021, gregsextondds.com/blog/10-surprising-facts-about-smiles/. Accessed 7 May 2025.
More facts.
SMILE. “How a Fake Smile Can Improve Your Mood & Health.” SSFSMILE, 6 Aug. 2021, www.southsanfranciscodentalcare.com/post/how-a-fake-smile-can-improve-your-mood-health. Accessed 7 May 2025.
Used in the comparative about genuine and fake smiles to relay even fake smiles have a postive effect on the mind.
My research:
Method One: Booklet (tallying)
I created a tally booklet for people to record their smiles on. I wanted a party of people to track their smiles, bringing awareness to them about smiling and seeing what comes of it. I selected even amount of women to men to also see the change gender causes.
These are all that I got back. However I got four women and five men.
Here is the data visualized. I had them fill out different marks for different types of smiles. For the genuine, the difference is not as much as what i thought it would be however keeping in mind there is four women to the five men I got its still apparent to see. The one I expected the most was the someone told you to slot which as you can see is 14 to 2. There is also a good gap for the polite smiles as well.
Reflection
Something that surprised me was gap between genuine smiles of men and women were not as large as I initially thought they would be. The interview method helped a lot to expand on my findings in the book tallies. Overall, everything was pretty smooth. I wasn’t able to get as many results but those were not what I could control, and I did get 10 out of 20 back which is more than I expected. The interviews went nicely the only issue was finding people that did do my booklet to agree to interview. Which is why I only got three. However, there isn’t much I would do differently. I liked my process and my results. Something I learned that will stay with me for the rest of my life was the article about how Botox can make your brain unable to read emotions on someone else’s face because you can no longer make them. That’s even more reason to create about expressing how wonderful it is to smile because with Botox you can’t!