All Smiles Are Positive, but Some Smiles Are More Positive Than Others

Daniel S. Messinger; Alan Fogel; K. Laurie Dickson

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179644.003.0016

All Smiles Are Positive, but Some Smiles Are More Positive Than Others

Daniel S. Messinger, Alan Fogel, K. Laurie Dickson

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This chapter reports a study that addressed developmental changes in the associations between positive periods of interaction and different types of smiling and other facial expressions. It specifically explores the meaning of the associations of different types of facial expressions with specific interactive periods, examines the development of these associations, and reviews alternate interpretations and supporting evidence. Frequent observations of thirteen infants yielded appreciable and reliable differences between different types of smiling in different periods of interaction that tended to grow stronger with age and could be observed in a significant proportion of individual infants. The different types of smiles index different intensities of joy.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	What the Face Reveals
Subtitle of host publication	Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199847044
ISBN (Print)	9780195179644
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179644.003.0016
State	Published - Mar 22 2012

Keywords

Facial expression
Infants
Interactive periods
Joy
Smiling

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General Psychology

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