Chapter 55
Prolonged Smiling
People Affected: everyone older than 24 months
Type of Emotion: muscular involuntary expression
Trigger Emotion: pride
Facial Expression: corners of mouth are pulled up
Facial Expression: upper eyelids raise slightly to enlarge eyes
Key Feature: not triggered before 24 months
Key Feature: more frequently triggered in men
Key Feature: longer duration than momentary smiling
Synonym: beaming
Type of Emotion: muscular involuntary expression
Trigger Emotion: pride
Facial Expression: corners of mouth are pulled up
Facial Expression: upper eyelids raise slightly to enlarge eyes
Key Feature: not triggered before 24 months
Key Feature: more frequently triggered in men
Key Feature: longer duration than momentary smiling
Synonym: beaming
Purpose
Prolonged smiling encourages others to strive for higher rank. Prolonged smiling makes the reward of pride tangible to others.
Prolonged smiling motivates more people than pride. Only a winner feels pride, but many people see a winner’s prolonged smiling.
Trigger Emotion
Prolonged smiling is not triggered before 24 months of age. Pride is not triggered before 24 months. Earlier smiling is momentary smiling or voluntary smiling.
Prolonged smiling is more frequently triggered in men. Pride is generally stronger in men.
Facial Expression
Prolonged smiling encourages others to strive for higher rank. Prolonged smiling makes the reward of pride tangible to others.
Prolonged smiling motivates more people than pride. Only a winner feels pride, but many people see a winner’s prolonged smiling.
Trigger Emotion
Prolonged smiling is not triggered before 24 months of age. Pride is not triggered before 24 months. Earlier smiling is momentary smiling or voluntary smiling.
Prolonged smiling is more frequently triggered in men. Pride is generally stronger in men.
Facial Expression
Prolonged smiling is a longer version of momentary smiling. While momentary smiling lasts less than a second, prolonged smiling lasts more than a second.
Happiness Dissected is a more practical version of The Origin of Emotions.
