Your profile picture can give away not only your current state of satisfaction but how happy your future will be, as well.
Does your Facebook profile photo predict future life satisfaction?
A new study suggests you can assume some pretty personal information about an individual -- how satisfied they are with life - without reading a word about them.
Newly published research in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that your profile picture can give away not only your current state of satisfaction but how happy your future will be, as well.
In two studies, the authors showed that smile intensity of a singleFacebook profile photograph taken from male and female participants’ first term at university was a strong predictor of self-reported life satisfaction three and a half years later, as they were about to graduate.
Maybe it's as simple as the fact that smiling is good for your social life, and an active social life - one that builds close friendships -has been linked to higher levels of health and happiness. Regardless, the point is: smile. If you're not happy today, you will be in three and a half years.
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