According to research conducted by Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, Americans and Britons smile differently. While that in itself isn't that big of a surprise, what's amusing is how the newspapers from the two sides of the Atlantic view it. The New York Times says that Americans smile and Britons grimace while The Times of London says that the British smile is harder to fake, and hence more sincere.

I wonder how different an Asian smile is and what the newspapers would have made of them. Most likely, there would be huge differences within South-East Asia itself. And that brings to mind an interesting question: how does one learn how to smile?

Via BoingBoing.