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William H Stoddard's avatar

Perhaps the United States is an example of your super happy society, though not genetically so. I have read that Norman Vincent Peale's How to Win Friends and Influence People popularized the idea that you should always smile at people, and it became a widespread custom to do so, where previously such smiles were rare. Indeed we now have jokes about things like "resting bitch face" for people who don't habitually smile.

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