TY - JOUR
T1 - The Many Smiles Collaboration:
T2 - A Multi-Lab Foundational Test of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis
AU - Coles, Nicholas A.
AU - March, David S.
AU - Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
AU - Banaruee, Hassan
AU - Butcher, Natalie
AU - Cavallet, Mikael
AU - Dagaev, Nikolay
AU - Eaves, Daniel
AU - Foroni, Francesco
AU - Gorbunova, Elena
AU - Gygax, Pascal
AU - Poveda, José Antonio Hinojosa
AU - Ayumi Ikeda, Ayumi
AU - Kathin-Zadeh, Omid
AU - Özdoğru, Asil Ali
AU - Parzuchowski, Michal
AU - Ruiz-Fernández, Susana
AU - Som, Bidisha
AU - Suarez, Isabel
AU - Trujillo, Natalia
AU - Trujillo, Sandra
AU - van der Zee, Tim
AU - Villalba-García, Cristina
AU - Willis, Megan
AU - Yamada, Yuki
AU - Ellsworth, Phoebe
AU - Gaertner, Lowell
AU - Strack, Fritz
AU - Liuzza, Marco Tullio
AU - Marozzi, Marco
PY - 2020/4/7
Y1 - 2020/4/7
N2 - The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that an individual’s subjective experience of emotion is influenced by their own facial expressions. However, researchers currently face conflicting narratives about whether this hypothesis is valid. A large collaborative effort consistently failed to replicate a seminal demonstration of the facial feedback hypothesis, but meta-analysis suggests the effects are real. Consequently, we conducted a foundational test of the facial feedback hypothesis, wherein a large group of researchers specified the best way(s) to test the hypothesis and used this information to design and execute an international multi-lab experiment. Two pilot studies suggested that smiling could both magnify ongoing feelings of happiness and initiate feelings of happiness in otherwise non-emotional scenarios. Next, 18 labs from 17 countries will examine whether these findings can be replicated.
AB - The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that an individual’s subjective experience of emotion is influenced by their own facial expressions. However, researchers currently face conflicting narratives about whether this hypothesis is valid. A large collaborative effort consistently failed to replicate a seminal demonstration of the facial feedback hypothesis, but meta-analysis suggests the effects are real. Consequently, we conducted a foundational test of the facial feedback hypothesis, wherein a large group of researchers specified the best way(s) to test the hypothesis and used this information to design and execute an international multi-lab experiment. Two pilot studies suggested that smiling could both magnify ongoing feelings of happiness and initiate feelings of happiness in otherwise non-emotional scenarios. Next, 18 labs from 17 countries will examine whether these findings can be replicated.
UR - https://psyarxiv.com/cvpuw
U2 - 10.31234/osf.io/cvpuw
DO - 10.31234/osf.io/cvpuw
M3 - Article
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
SN - 2397-3374
ER -