Summary Smiling, one of the expressions of emotion which appears to be universally exhibited and understood, is thought to become sensitive to social context and to be shaped by social factors. Examination of individual photographs from yearbooks of 10 randomly selected colleges revealed that women smiled significantly more frequently than men, and also that there are significant differences in frequency of smiling for both sexes between the colleges selected.
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