According to experts, poker-faced individuals who stay emotionally guarded no matter what circumstance they confront have trouble making friends.

According to reports, psychologists discovered that pupils who were best at inhibiting their sentiments also were the ones who experienced the hardest time making pals.

"An individual who responds to the college transition by being emotionally guarded in the first few days" would probably miss chances for friendship, wrote the authors of that study, published last year.

Hebrew University psychologist Maya Tamir said, "If staying calm and patient and confident is what has worked for you in crisis situations in the past then subconsciously, it may become automatic. And the more automatic it becomes, the less of the actual anger, or panic, you feel."

George Mason University's Todd Kashdan said that researchers evaluate three components of emotion: hiding it, setting it and tolerating it.

Boston University psychology professor Stefan G. Hofmann said, "These are each valuable strategies, in different situations."

"The people who get into trouble socially, I believe, are the ones who are inflexible - who stick to just one." (With Inputs from Agencies)