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It is common knowledge that people will smile only when they are happy inside. That is, inner emotions control facial expressions. On the other hand, can just making a smiling face make you feel happy inside? This seems to be a question that goes against common sense. The pencil experiment answers this question in an interesting way. The pencil experiment was first proposed by German scholars, and has also aroused curiosity and verification by psychologists from various countries.

The experiment randomly divided the participants into two groups. The two groups of participants watched the same movie, and the storyline of the movie was both happy and sad. The first group of people were asked to bite the pencil horizontally with their teeth and look at it with their mouths wide open into a smile; the second group of people were asked to hold the pencil with their lips pressed down and look at it with the corners of their mouths downward. The survey found that participants who held a pencil between their teeth saw more happy things in the video and remained happy; while participants who held a pencil between their lips saw more pleasant things in the video. People are depressed, sad things happen, and their mood is quite pessimistic.

Pencil experiment conclusion

1. Facial expressions and inner emotions have effects at the same time, regardless of order. In other words, if you are happy in your heart, you will smile. On the contrary, if you make a smiling expression, you will easily see happy things.

2. The state of facial expression can be used as an emotional filter. For example, if you turn the corners of your mouth upward, you can easily get positive energy; if you turn the corners of your mouth downward, you can more easily feel negative energy. .

Pencil Experiment Application Areas

Psychological Counseling and Emotional Management

When doing psychological counseling, one of the simplest ways to guide the counselee to change negative emotions is to let He often bites a pencil (or grins the corners of his mouth consciously), and he naturally filters out troublesome things.

When you are angry, angry, or depressed, you might as well bite a pencil (you can also find a chopstick, or you can open your mouth), and you will definitely feel much better.

Plastic Surgery

Using plastic surgery to adjust the facial condition of a face that has been ravaged by life and the environment and transform it into a face that is joyful and majestic, his heart feels natural You will gain more positive energy and your life will change in the future.