PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Doomsday Cult, Cognitive Dissonance
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People with pen between teeth forced smiling. Emotional experience is determined in part by feedback from facial expressions. It should be possible to manipulate how a person feels by manipulating their face. You want your thoughts, feelings and behaviors to be consistent with one another. If there is an inconsistency, you will feel an unpleasant state of arousal as a result. An uncomfortable state that occurs when behavior and attitudes do not match. Thought the world would end, but a spaceship would take them.