April 20, 2009
Were you smiling in your yearbook picture?
Then you should get married:
In one test, the researchers looked at people’s college yearbook photos, and rated their smile intensity from 1 to 10. None of the people who fell within the top 10 percent of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10 percent of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended, the researchers say. (Scoring was based on the stretch in two muscles: one that pulls up on the mouth, and one that creates wrinkles around the eyes.)
In a second trial, the research team asked people over age 65 to provide photos from their childhood (the average age in the pictures was 10 years old). The researchers scored each person’s smile, and found that only 11 percent of the biggest smilers had been divorced, while 31 percent of the frowners had experienced a broken marriage.
Overall, the results indicate that people who frown in photos are five times more likely to get a divorce than people who smile.
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I think I smiled for all of mine. (2 divorces followed by a 22-year gay relationship.)
I was not.
Did it mention whether that percentage that didn’t smile but did get divorced were more likely to die early or get killed in a gruesome way? That is a source of worry.
Fuck.
That is also my concern, Phil.
What if you smiled because you view your yearbook as being for your classmates and children, not just yourself? That’s how I saw it anyway, in the same way that walking at graduation has been more for my parents than myself.
i know for a fact i smiled in my pictures but one of them i just kinda glared at the camera cuz i was mad……….