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Love at first gurgle

When we’re happy, we smile. When we’re sad, our mouths turn down and we tear up. Our faces express the emotions we’re experiencing inside. Everybody knows that, right? Yes, but from our own experience, we know it’s more complicated than that.

We don’t necessarily smile when we’re happy, as a 1979 bowling-alley study found. The

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