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Finding Your Science: Why we smile on Facebook

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Uploaded by on Apr 15, 2010

Political scientist James Fowler makes the connection between smiling profile pictures on Facebook and human evolution.

Finding Your Science engages the greatest minds in science to share with you their passion, perspective and inspiration for making breakthrough discoveries.

Finding Your Science is a production of National Science Foundation (NSF) and is available for viewing on the NSF Facebook page, at http://www.facebook.com/US.NSF and YouTube channel, at http://www.youtube.com/user/VideosatNSF. Follow NSF on Twitter, at http://twitter.com/NSF and be the first to hear about new episodes.

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  • I don't see any significance in clusters of people smiling.

    Humans in general smile when taking a picture.

    Most researches are going to be drawn to what ever it is they're looking for.

    You can go on facebook right now & find individuals frowning & chances are they're not going to have many virtual friends. Therefore creating a false impression that the said individual is miserable & has no friends.

    Maybe they just hate the fact that they've become part of something they were once against?

  • Interesting,,, I wonder if my friends are smiling on facebook? Nice video series.

  • The NSF makes me smile!

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