Researchers have wondered if they could elicit or enhance an emotional response by molding a participant's posture and breathing pattern into a pattern typical of a given emotion. Describe what happened in the study illustrated in your text in which participants were made to smile by instructions that did not include the word smile

What will be an ideal response?

Participants who were made to smile by holding a pen between their teeth rated cartoons as funnier than participants who were told to hold it using their protruded lips, a position in which it is hard to smile.

Psychology

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A) much greater for adults than adolescents. B) hopelessly out of date. C) overestimated. D) underestimated.

Psychology

MRIs contain extremely strong magnets and their magnetic strength can be measured in units of

a) Megapascals b) Tesla c) Watts d) Farads

Psychology