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Fritz Strack (born February 6, 1950) is a German social psychologist and professor at the University of Würzburg. He was the lead author of a frequently cited 1988 study that provided apparent support for the facial feedback hypothesis. The study asked participants to hold a pen in their mouths in such a way as to make them either smile or frown, and then had them rate how funny a series of the Far Side cartoons were. In this study, participants who were smiling rated the cartoons as funnier, on average, compared to those who were frowning. In 2016, a study by a separate research team was published which failed to replicate the original study's results. Strack himself suggested that the negative results of the newer study could have been because of its researchers' use of a video camera to record participants, which may have affected the participants' responses. He also took issue with the replication study's choice of cartoons from the Far Side. Subsequent research has supported Strack's claim that participants knowing they are being recorded by cameras led to the replication study's negative result.
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6 February 1950 (age 75) Landau, Pfalz, Germany
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