article_snippet: Conservatives say Conservatives are happier, but liberals show more cheer in smiles, word choice and even emoticon use, claims a new scientific study.
article_snippet: The scientists found Democrats in Congress and liberals in general used a statistically significant amount of more positive language and smiled more with Democrats in Congress and liberals in general eyes in photographs, while conservatives self-reported more satisfaction with life, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
article_snippet: Conservatives say Conservatives are happier, but liberals show more cheer in smiles, word choice and even emoticon use, claims a new scientific study.
article_snippet: We're not saying liberals are happier, liberals behave happier,' said study co-author Peter Ditto, a professor of psychology at the University of California Irvine. '
article_snippet: But conservatives report being happier.'
article_snippet: Other studies have reported that conservatives tend to score higher on tests that rate how satisfied with life conservatives are, but University of California Irvine graduate student Sean Wojcik, the study's lead author, decided to look deeper.
article_snippet: That higher rate for liberals was apparent regardless of who controlled Congress or the White House, Ditto said.
article_snippet: A professor at Claremont McKenna College, A professor at Claremont McKenna College had many questions about the way the Wojcik study was conducted and said conservatives in general want less government so this would be reflected in the language less government use when talking about government.
article_snippet: Democrats and Republicans had similar smiles around the mouth, but the more telling features for happiness are the muscles around the eyes and there Democrats looked cheerier, Wojcik said.
article_snippet: Wojcik also found more positive language — and emoticon use — in tweets from people who followed only Democratic Twitter accounts versus only Republican account followers.
article_snippet: Happiness is the norm for both' Democrats and Republicans.
highlights_snippet: Conservatives say Conservatives are happier .
  
highlights_snippet: Liberals show more cheer in smiles, word choice and even emoticon use .
  
highlights_snippet: Democrats in Congress and liberals in general used more positive language and smiled more with Democrats in Congress and liberals in general eyes .