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Pan Am smile
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Pan-Am smile
English
Alternative forms
en Pan-Am smile
Etymology
Named after Pan American Airlines (later Pan Am), which had a policy requiring flight attendants to always smile when interacting with customers.
Noun
Pan Am smile
A smile that involves only the mouth, and not the entire face.
en Botox smile
en Duchenne smile
en 2007 w:Richard Wiseman Trust everyone, but always cut the cards: The psychology of lying and deception Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives London Macmillan 74 https://archive.org/details/quirkology0000wise_d5t4/page/74/mode/1up 978-0-230-70215-8 Compared to the women with the Pan Am smiles, those displaying the Duchenne smiles were significantly more likely to be married, stay married, be happier, and be healthier throughout their lives.
en 2008 w:Victoria Zdrok Eight Swaggers and Smiles: Catching Her Eye . . . and Keeping It Dr. Z on Scoring: How to Pick Up, Seduce, and Hook Up with Hot Women New York, N.Y. Fireside part 1 (The Art of Picking Up Hot Babes) 103 https://archive.org/details/drzonscoringhowt00zdro/page/103/mode/1up 978-1-4165-5155-3 These muscles pull the facial skin into the "crinkly" pattern at the corners of each eye, cause the droop in the eyelid toward the temple, and pull the cheeks and corners of the mouth upward (rather than sideways as in the Pan Am smile).
en 2009 Scott Owen Lilienfeld; Steven Jay Lynn; Laura L. Namy; Nancy J. Woolf Emotion and Motivation: What Moves Us Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding Boston, Mass. Pearson/Allyn & Bacon 449–450 https://archive.org/details/psychologyfromin0000unse_f5g3/page/449/mode/1up 978-0-205-41243-3 If you page through your family albums, you’ll probably find an abundance of Pan Am smiles, especially in posed photographs.
Further reading
Smile Non-Duchenne smile