Birth Name:

Fritz Strack

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Feb 06, 1950

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Landau, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Age:

74

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Aqu

6'

About Fritz Strack

Fritz Strack (born February 6, 1950) is a German social psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Würzburg. He was the lead author of a frequently cited 1988 study that provided support for the facial feedback hypothesis. The study asked participants to hold a pen in their mouths in such a way as to make them either smile or frown, and then had them rate how funny a series of the Far Side cartoons were. In this study, participants who were smiling rated the cartoons as funnier, on average, compared to those who were frowning. In 2016, a study by a separate research team was published which failed to replicate the original study's results. Strack himself suggested that the negative results of the replication study may have been caused by its researchers' use of a video camera to record the participants' responses. He also took issue with the replication study's choice of the same cartoons that had originally been used in 1985. Subsequent research has supported Strack's claim that participants knowing they are being recorded by cameras led to the replication study's negative result. Further evidence has provided additional support for both the pen procedure and the validity of the facial-feedback hypothesis.

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External Links:

• Faculty page

• Profile at Social Psychology Network

• Fritz Strack publications indexed by Google Scholar

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Fritz Strack: Sun 17 Aquarius, Moon 3 Libra, Mercury 21 Capricorn, Venus 7 Aquarius, Mars 10 Libra, Jupiter 15 Aquarius, Saturn 18 Virgo, Uranus 1 Cancer, Neptune 17 Libra, Pluto 17 Leo, Sun Trine Neptune, Sun Conjunct Jupiter, Sun Opposition Pluto, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Quincunx Saturn, Mercury Trine Saturn, Sun Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Venus Trine Mars, Mars Trine Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Neptune, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Jupiter Trine Neptune, Jupiter Opposition Pluto, Saturn Semi Sextile Neptune, Saturn Semi Sextile Pluto, Uranus Semi Square Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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