心理学家研究发现，学生照能预测一个人未来的婚姻稳定程度
据英国《每日邮报》报道，心理学家分析研究了数百张学生照，观察每个学生的表情以预测他们未来的婚姻状况，称学生照笑与不笑大有学问，绷着脸的日后离婚率高，概率是其他人的五倍多。
美国德葩大学心理学副教授马修•赫登斯坦领导的研究小组对美国中西部一个小镇上55岁以上的老人进行实地考察，在分析了他们的学生照后得出结论，学生照上笑得开朗的日后婚姻比较稳定，笑容僵硬或者绷着脸的日后容易离婚。
马修在文章中指出，研究发现，那些笑得最不真实的人，离婚率高，是那些笑得开朗的人的五倍。但是他同时指出，照片上的笑容并不一定预示着幸福人生，也不是唯一确凿的证据。“笑与不笑并不是人生命运的决定因素。人与人各有不同。”
How school photos reveal whether you'll divorce: Children who look unhappy in them are FIVE times more likely to split in later life
Children who look unhappy in childhood school photographs are five times more likely to get divorced than those who smile most, a scientist claims.
People who stayed married in later life tended to smile more widely and warmly in their school photographs, while future divorcées were more likely to smile weakly, if at all in their photos.
A U.S. psychologist came up with his conclusions when exploring whether school photos reveal who individuals are in a moment in time, or if they can predict their future.
Matthew Hertenstein, an associate professor of psychology at DePauw University, Indiana, measured individuals’ emotional displays based on photographs in hundreds of school yearbooks to see if he could predict who would get divorced.
In an article for The Wall Street Journal, he said he found that people who smiled least genuinely were five times more likely to get divorced at some point in their lives than those with happy photographs.
To work out who was smiling strongly, he looked at whether the individual in the photo contracted the muscle that pulls up the lip corners as well as the orbicularis oculi, which is the muscle that makes someone’s eyes ‘smile’ too.
Professor Hertenstein said that future divorcées tended not to smile, or if they did, did not contract their orbicularis oculi - indicating a smile that was not genuine.
Together with his team, the psychologist, who is the author of a new book called THE TELL: THE LITTLE CLUES THAT REVEAL BIG TRUTHS ABOUT WHO WE ARE, examined the childhood and adolescent yearbook photos of people over the age of 55 in a small town in mid-west U.S.
As part of their research in 2009, which was published the journal Motivation and Emotion, they also looked at photographs of participants at birthdays and graduations and concluded that the photos predicted divorce as accurately as the yearbook photos did.
According to a study by psychologists LeeAnne Harker and Dacher Keltner in 2001, college yearbook photographs can also predict whether someone will enjoy a life with less sadness, anxiety and despair 30 years after the graduate.The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found more stoic looking classmates were less well socially connected and had less fulfilling lives than their more smiley classmates.
However, Professor Hertenstein concedes that smiling in photos cannot cause happy outcomes and is not the only valid predictor of them.
He writes: ‘Your smile, or lack thereof, is not the great determinant of your destiny. Individual cases will certainly vary.’(MailOnline)
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