Centre for Distinctive Dentistry Blog - Dr. Ned Nippoldt
St. Paul, Woodbury, Minneapolis, Hudson, Lake Elmo, Stillwater, Minnesota
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Your Smile Has A Voice Of Its Own
Did you know that your words actually sound better when you say them with a smile?
According the the January 2011 issue of Dentistry Today, professor emeritus John J. Ohala from the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered that a smile gives the speaker's voice a higher pitch. Humans associate deep voices with threatening animals and higher pitched voices with less-threatening animals. Therefore, smiling and higher-pitched voices subconsciously convey an absence of danger.
The sound of a voice accompanied by a smile is firmly ingrained in the human subconscious as being safe and cheerful, and adults have been conditioned to feel good about another person just by seeing them smile.
Your smile can be interpreted by those around you to mean that you are friendly and easy to be around. A lack of a smile, on the other hand, can send the opposite message. As a dentist, I know that people who are self-conscious about their teeth often don't smile. What is your smile or absence of a smile saying about you?
If you are interested in finding out how we can enhance your smile and are in the Woodbury, Minneapolis, St. Paul, MN, or Hudson, WI areas, give Dr. Nippoldt's Centre for Distinctive Dentistry a call at 651-739-8573. We'll develop a plan to make your smile sing!
According the the January 2011 issue of Dentistry Today, professor emeritus John J. Ohala from the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered that a smile gives the speaker's voice a higher pitch. Humans associate deep voices with threatening animals and higher pitched voices with less-threatening animals. Therefore, smiling and higher-pitched voices subconsciously convey an absence of danger.
The sound of a voice accompanied by a smile is firmly ingrained in the human subconscious as being safe and cheerful, and adults have been conditioned to feel good about another person just by seeing them smile.
Your smile can be interpreted by those around you to mean that you are friendly and easy to be around. A lack of a smile, on the other hand, can send the opposite message. As a dentist, I know that people who are self-conscious about their teeth often don't smile. What is your smile or absence of a smile saying about you?
If you are interested in finding out how we can enhance your smile and are in the Woodbury, Minneapolis, St. Paul, MN, or Hudson, WI areas, give Dr. Nippoldt's Centre for Distinctive Dentistry a call at 651-739-8573. We'll develop a plan to make your smile sing!
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