PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Duration Neglect, Extraversion And Introversion, Psy
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114 photos of females from 1958 and 60 yearbooks. 111 of them smiling, varying degrees of duchenne-ness; coded on a scale of 1-10 and the avg was 3. 8. Contacted ps 40 years later and asked them about marital status and satisfaction if married. Result: those with higher levels of duchenne smile more likely to be married and satisfied with marriage 40 years later. Happiness at t1 predicted well-being (in terms of being married and happy in this marriage) 5 decades later. Nb: what they actually measured was level of "smizing", this was a stand-in for "happiness" at t1. In the 30"s nuns wrote autobio essays for their mother superior. Methodology nb: particularily valuable because confounding variables were controlled across p"s: lack of lifestyle variants, had same income, habits, diet, lifestyle, access to hc, etc leads to cleaner data. In the 90s, 60% of the sample remained alive so they decided to look at whether positive emotionality.
