“According to an amusing little study, by paralyzing the frown muscles that ordinarily are engaged when we feel angry, Botox short-circuits the emotion itself.” So WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR HOLLYWOOD? The study in question, as detailed in Newsweek , worked on the familar premise that smiling makes you feel happier (whether whistling a happy tune is equally effective was not studied, but Rogers and Hammerstein were generally infallible in such matters.) And Botox, of course, provides a wealth of new expression-altering possibilities for the inquiring mind. So? Havas found an even deeper effect. As he described at the annual meeting of the Society for Personal and Social Psychology last week, he had 40 volunteers who were planning to be Botoxed in two weeks read statements with particular emotional freight: angry (”the pushy telemarketer won’t let you return to your dinner”), sad (”you open…
