Facial feedback experiment with a pen held in the mouth
ID: facial-feedback-experiment-with-a-pen-held-in-the-mouth
The 1988 experiment associated with Fritz Strack used different ways of holding a pen to facilitate or inhibit facial activity associated with smiling. The manipulation was intended to avoid explicitly asking participants to act happy. Its interpretive importance lies in separating bodily feedback from explicit labeling; its limitation is that different postures can also change effort and task experience.[ref]
Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile by Fritz Strack and others. 1988, experimental manipulation and humor judgments
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