Psychological researchers generally recognize that facial expressions reflect emotional states. In fact, various emotional states give rise to certain patterns of electrical activity in the facial muscles and in the brain. The facial-feedback hypothesis argues, however, that the causal relationship between emotions and facial expressions can also work in the opposite direction. According to this hypothesis, signals from the facial muscles ("feedback) are sent back to emotion centers of the brain, and so a person's facial expression can influence that person's emotional state. Psychological research has given rise to some interesting. Causing participants in experiments to smile, for example, leads them to report more positive feelings and to rate cartoons (humorous drawings of people or situations) as being more humorous. When they are caused to frown, they rate cartoons as being more aggressive. According to the passage, research involving which of the following supported the facial-feedback hypothesis?
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The reactions of people in experiments to cartoons
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The tendency of people in experiments to cooperate
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The release of neurotransmitters by people during experiments
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The long-term effects of repressing emotions