Kindness Tip: Psychology of Flowers
Channel: kindhumans
Date: 2022-09-11

The psychology of flowers 💐 🌻 🌸 

In 2005, Professor Jeannette Haviland-Jones sent out three different types of packages—a candle, a fruit basket, or a floral bouquet—to 147 different women. It was a thank you gift, she said, a ruse that seemed plausible enough. The recipients had all participated in one of her recent psychological studies. But they weren’t actually gifts; they were variables. And the delivery men carrying them weren’t couriers, they were observers, measuring each recipient’s facial expressions. Afterwards, studying the results in her lab, Haviland-Jones discovered something that, she recalls, shocked her. Those who got the flowers unanimously exhibited a Duchenne smile—a genuine expression considered by psychologists to be “the sole indicator of true enjoyment.” In fact, three days later, the flower group felt happier than their fruit-basket and candle brethren. “When I saw that every person who got the flowers responded with the Duchenne smile, I thought, No, this doesn’t happen,” Haviland-Jones said. “In the emotions lab, you never get a 100 percent response unless you’re dropping a snake on people, which gives you a nice 100 percent fear response. But, happy? No.”

Empirically, Haviland-Jones proved what, anecdotally, many of us already knew: Flowers have power. 

Research source: @voguemagazine 
And thx for the top tip @looseitinerary !!

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