A new study has suggested that if you have gone through a Botox treatment, you should smile more often to feel more contented.

Botox, which is used to fight facial wrinkles, is prepared of an extremely toxic protein known as Botulinum toxin that temporarily paralyzes the muscles that lead to creases.

So, your face looks frozen if you don’t have facial expressions in any way.

Now the lack of facial expressions may influence emotional experiences also, the research discovered. Which means, that being unable to smile when you are happy feeds back to the brain reducing the intensity of feeling.

Researcher Joshua Davis, a psychologist at Barnard College in New York, stated, “With Botox, a person can respond otherwise normally to an emotional event, [such as] a sad movie scene, but will have less movement in the facial muscles that have been injected, and therefore less feedback to the brain about such facial expressivity.”

In a before-and-after trial, study scientists noted that the facial expressions and emotional experiences of a few participants who were given Botox and discovered that they exhibited an overall significant decrease in the strength of emotional experience.

The outcomes of the study were published in the journal Emotion. (With Inputs from Agencies)