Be Happy, Be Healthy

Be Happy, Be Healthy

Activity 2. Testing whether smiling is contagious

You will do a short experiment on the impact of smiling and working in pairs.

  1. Do your best to make your classmates laugh within 3 minutes, but without touching them.
  2. During the activity, you will switch roles – of making the smiley person laugh and of making the smiley person laugh. The first one of you will be the one who is laughing. At the end of the 3 minutes, you switch roles and the second of you makes the other laugh for another 3 minutes.
  3. The student who is in the role of the one being laughed at should do his best not to smile.
  4. Record the data from the experiment on the Worksheet 2. Is smiling contagious? provided. Is smiling contagious?

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Worksheet 2. Is smiling contagious?