Every day when the church bells ring marking the start of mass at a church in Italy, a German Shepherd named Tommy is there. He used to attend mass daily with his owner Maria Margherita Lochi. It has been two months since she passed away and Tommy has been at mass every day since still mourning the loss of his best friend.
Read more about Tommy at http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/?p=61209My heart..
People can sense a smile before it appears on the face
But a forced or polite smile does not transmit the same signals, meaning we only detect it when it is visible, reports journal Psychological Science.
Researchers say the study reflects the unique social value of a heartfelt smile, which involves specific movements of muscles around the eyes.
A team from Bangor University had noted that pairs of strangers getting to know one another not only exchanged smiles, they almost always matched the particular smile type, whether genuine or polite.
But they responded much more quickly to their partners’ genuine smiles than their polite smiles, suggesting that they were anticipating the genuine smiles.
In the lab, the results were repeated and data from electrical sensors on participants’ faces revealed that they engaged smile-related muscles when they expected a genuine smile to appear but showed no such activity when expecting polite smiles.
The different responses suggest that genuine smiles are more valuable social rewards, said Dr Erin Heerey.
She said: “These findings give us the first clear suggestion that the basic processes that guide responses to reward also play a role in guiding social behaviour on a moment-to-moment basis during interactions.
“No two interactions are alike, yet people still manage to smoothly coordinate their speech and nonverbal behaviors with those of another person.”
She said that polite smiles typically occur when sociocultural norms dictate that smiling is appropriate.
Genuine smiles, on the other hand, signify pleasure, occur spontaneously, and are indicated by engagement of specific muscles around the eye.
She said the study could help those who find social interactions tricky.
She explained: “As we progress in our understanding of how social interactions unfold, these findings may help to guide the development of interventions for people who find social interactions difficult, such as those with social anxiety, autism, or schizophrenia.”
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
- Kurt Vonnegut (via tattoolit)
Just in case.
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tw self harm
I’m sorry for posting this, it’s just I always see pictures on here of girls with flowers drawn around their cuts or pictures of blood in the shape of hearts or people rebloging pictures of scars and saying “I don’t support self harm but for some reason this looks really beautiful” and it really fucking annoys me
self harm is a real problem faced by real people, you may not be meaning to but posts like those mentioned glamorise it and trivialise it and its just not right.
pictures. of. cuts/scars. are. not. cute.
I could not agree more.
people need to get the message
Wow is that some kind of alien hand print, the fingers look like a foot long
(Source: theeaterofsins)
Walked around all day with a piece of spinach in between his teeth.
Walked into a street sign while rocking out to his iPod.
Brought a guy home this weekend and forgot she was wearing underwear that she’d had since sixth grade with holes in them.
Funny I see animals like this all the time
About crap i say
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