20+ Powerful Photos Showing How a Smile Can Change a Human's Face

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4. Actually, not quite.

British smile not just by pulling back the upper lip but also the lower lip. They bear lower teeth, something not common. To Americans, that usually looks fake, forced.

Russians avoid smiling in public. Smile around those who aren't sufficiently close or in the wrong circumstance and it's deemed an attempt to deceive or that somehow you're hiding something. It's suspicious.

In some cultures, smiles can be signs of amusement or affection. Or it can be the response to negative face when confronted with somebody above you in the power hierarchy dishing out dishonor.



Fake smiles don't produce the same response as real smiles, because they don't use the same muscles.