Study found that emotions that you have to suppress to fake smile through a shift at work can come back to haunt you.
Researchers at Penn State and the University of Buffalo found that employees who force their smiles through a shift were at greater risk of heavy drinking after their shift ends.
The participants surveyed were asked how often they faked a smile, how often they drank after work, how much control they felt they had at work, and how impulsive they typically were.
For many in the survey, the faking of positive emotions and suppressing of natural emotions wore enough on them that they'd turn to alcohol.