Director of Research, National Center for Scientific Research
Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research and Professor of Psychology at the Université Blaise Pascal (France)
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Paula Niedenthal
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FROM Paula Niedenthal
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What's in a Smile? Four years ago, a Russian reporter was interviewing Dr. Paula Niedenthal at her office in Blaise Pascal University in France. When he found out she was American, he said, "American smiles are all false, and French smiles are all true. " That provoked a new project for Niedenthal, who's Director of the National Center for Scientific Research in France.
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