The facial feedback hypothesis argues that facial expressions can sway emotional experience. For instance, a person who’s forced to smile even when they don’t feel like it will eventually come to smile and even enjoy the company they’re with. The experiment at hand was conducted on five (5) respondents, who were required to do two different activities. First was to hold a pencil across their teeth while showing their teeth in the first instance and while covering the pencil with their lips in the second instance.
In the first instance, three of the respondents scored four while two responded with 3. The average score thus came down to 4. In the second instance, three respondents responded with three while two responded with 2. The average performance from the second instance (with the lips covering the pencil) came to 3.
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Thus, my findings from the experiment were consistent with the facial feedback hypothesis. This, I deduced to be because holding the pencil while showing the teeth, in some way seemed like a smile. When one is smiling, the teeth are usually visible, and there is usually some separation distance between the upper and lower teeth, the pencil created this. After removing the pencil from their teeth, a majority of the five respondents kept on smiling, indicating that the experiment proved the hypothesis to be true.
In the second instance, however, after removing the pencil from their teeth/mouth, a majority of the respondents seemed mellow, and their mood largely remained unchanged from their previous disposition/mood.
Emotions are a core part of our memories as human beings, and in my opinion, God created us with feelings or with the ability to experience them to enhance our experience as human beings. Majority of a human being’s activities are ‘emotionally’ driven. From work to keeping healthy, the things we do, we do to be happy, and happiness is one of the primary emotions of a human being. Without emotions, in my opinion, the human experience wouldn’t be far from that of animals or even machines. We would simply be doing things to survive.
