Photographs and Marriages

I got this from Yahoo today and I found it really interesting. The article talks something about the relationship between your yearbook picture (or old photographs at that) and the success of your marriage. Read on:

If you want to know whether your marriage will survive, look at your spouse's
yearbook photos. Psychologists have found that how much people smile in old
photographs can predict their later success in marriage....(Scoring was based on the stretch in two muscles: one that pulls up on the mouth, and one that creates wrinkles around the eyes.)

In a second trial, the research team asked people over age 65 to provide
photos from their childhood (the average age in the pictures was 10 years old).
The researchers scored each person's smile, and found that only 11 percent of
the biggest smilers had been divorced, while 31 percent of the frowners had
experienced a broken marriage.

Overall, the results indicate that people who frown in photos are five times more likely to get a divorce than people who smile.

I would like to think that this is because the happy ones tend to pair up with other happy individuals thus they would end up both happy being together.

I went out of my way to look at my old yearbook pictures.








If this study were 100% credible, than looks like someone here's gonna have one helluva happy marriage. *grins*