I found out on Friday that my original journal topic had come from the wrong journal. Luckily, I wasn't too far into my paper to have lost a lot of work. What made this bad news bearable was that Mr. Hall and I were both smiling. Like laughter, smiling can be very contagious and make even the worst situation better. In this essay, I will explore an academic journal by Nicolas Guegan and Marie-agnes De Gail about the effect smiling had on unsuspecting people that was published in Communication Reports. First I will explain the article and its findings. Next, I will examine the relationship between the article and our understanding of communication. And finally, I will offer my reflections on the research.
             The journal begins by explaining how smiling can affect a server's tip. Whether if it is on a sunny day, they draw a smiley face on the person's bill, or if the server just simply smiled, can all affect the server's tip. The journal further explains that shoppers in a department store receive more help when they are smiling. When someone smiles at another person, it creates a positive feeling in the receiver of the smile. That positive feeling is the reason for someone's willingness to help another person.
             Affecting the mood of someone can also be done with smells. Smells in a mall (like cooking or coffee) can affect whether or not someone of the same sex would give you change for a dollar. A woman who wears a lot of perfume is more likely to get help from others than if she is not. These researchers then tested a theory on the affect smiling has on unsuspecting Samaritans.
             While setting up this experiment, four men and four women between the age of nineteen and twenty-four where chosen. Evaluators were asked to look at the pictures and choose the individuals that had "neutral attractiveness (De Gail and Guegan)." When the eight individuals, referred t
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