There is also some reason to believe that smiling stops making you happy if you force a smile too often.
Bus drivers are expected to smile at costumers. Some days that doesn’t come without effort. Bus drivers use two strategies to solve that: force a smile and think about something that makes them smile. On days when a driver used mostly the first strategy their mood tended to get worse, while when they used the second it got brighter.
There is also some reason to believe that smiling stops making you happy if you force a smile too often.
Bus drivers are expected to smile at costumers. Some days that doesn’t come without effort. Bus drivers use two strategies to solve that: force a smile and think about something that makes them smile. On days when a driver used mostly the first strategy their mood tended to get worse, while when they used the second it got brighter.