What's Next?: Looking Into the Research Process

So far in the research process, I have found a lot of useful articles in the scholarly databases PsycInfo, (American Psychological Association), The Australian Psychological Society, Ammons Scientific, Taylor Francis Online and Springer Link. These articles include:

·         Option or obligation to smile: The effects of power and gender on facial expression,

·         Effects of Laughing, Smiling, and Howling on Mood,

·         The effect of Embarrassed Reactions Upon Others,

·         Social and Emotional Messages of Smiling: An Ethological Approach, 

  ·    Look at me, I'm smiling: Visual search for threatening and nonthreatening facial expressions,

·         All Smiles are Not Created Equal: Morphology and Timing of Smiles Perceived as Amused, Polite, and Embarrassed/Nervous and

·         The world smiles at me: Self-referential positivity bias when interpreting direction of attention

                I have been searching for scholarly articles/research that focus on human psychology in social environments. I have yet to search for popular sources but I think that blogs, and even videos of YouTube commentators, describing personal experiences of being told to smile by strangers will be the most helpful in narrowing down why it bothers people and what the implications of such a request are. Even though I have chosen not to focus on a particular gender in this situation because of the limited time that I have, I am aware that feminists are very vocal about this subject and thus feminist magazines and websites may also provide me with some useful popular sources for my podcast.