A recent study (you know how we love those) linked the smiles people sported in their high-school yearbook photos with the success of their marriages.
Psychologists rated people's yearbook smiles in intensity from 1 to 10. None of the top 10 percent of smilers had been divorced, whereas in the bottom 10 percent, nearly one in four had divorced.
(We're not good at math or anything, but this doesn't add up. We thought something like half of all marriages ended in divorce...?)
In another trial utilizing childhood photos of subjects over 65, 31 percent of frowners had been through a divorce. Guess it just goes to prove that lyric sung by Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in their hit single, "Let the Sun Shine In": "Smilers never lose, and frowners never win."
More details and speculation on why, here.
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