# Professor Alixandra Barasch's joint research on positive emotions and perception

1 November 21, 2016 Business Insider ![Business Insider logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/business%20insider%20logo.jpg?itok=0MJSCdPh)>

Excerpt from [Business Insider](http://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-shouldnt-smile-too-much-at-work-2016-11?r=UK&IR=T) -- "The researchers — New York University's [Alixandra Barasch](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alixandra-barasch), the University of Chicago's Emma E. Levine, and the Wharton School's Maurice E. Schweitzer — came to their conclusions after conducting a series of studies to test the link between the magnitude of positive emotions people display and others' perceptions of them."

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