Is It True It Takes More Effort To Frown Than To Smile?

When you look at the muscles required for both actions, yes, it does turn out to be true. The face is made up of many different muscles. These work together to make the fine movements that allow so many facial expressions. It takes the action of 43 separate muscles to look cross, a beaming smile uses only 17 muscles.

Every movement of the body, no matter how small, happens because we have muscles. There are about 600 different muscles in the body. Muscles squeeze and relax to move bones. The largest muscle in the body, called the gluteus maximus, is the one that we sit on. It controls movement of the hip joint. The smallest muscle in the body, the stapedius muscle moves a tiny bone in the inner ear.

Movements made by the skeletal muscles are under the direct control of the brain and the movements in the face, seen by the eyes of others as facial expressions, need complex processing. Even then, they are easy to misinterpret.

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