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Surface Acting: Make your bad mood worse
Posted by Irwan in Psychology on February 22, 2011
- Surface acting is often use to hide your bad mood through smile, enthusiasm and positive talks. It is not necessarily fake but it’s build upon with fatiguing effort(emotionally).
- Surface acting or any other feeling-undermining activity is emotionally fatiguing and may make your bad mood worse.
- May be seemed as hypocrite action by others.
- Extended practice may cause subconscious surface acting and may reduce ability to portray true feeling
Further reading: NYTimes