German researchers studied how accurate men and women were at guessing others' ages by having them look at multiple photos of the faces of 171 young, middle-aged, and older people. In some of the ...

Old and grumpy? Elderly people find it harder to spot smiling faces because they don't need to make new friends, scientists say. Scientists say the older you are the more likely you are to want to ...

In most old photos — those taken in the 19th century and early 20th century — people aren’t smiling. That’s led to the popular belief that people simply didn’t smile in old photos.

Now You Know: Why Do People Always Look So Serious in Old Photos? 7 minute read. By Merrill Fabry. ... whether or not people are smiling in photographs has very little to do with how happy they are.

But sometimes smiling indicates experimentation or entertainment -- those low-class figures who were allowed to smile. Judith Leyster's Jolly Toper , for example, shows a joyous, debauched man ...