About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/5ed7020079ae34d0bd1b6b3915accecab71c01af41d0c0e8c97d3d17

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/5ed7020079ae34d0bd1b6b3915accecab71c01af41d0c0e8c97d3d17 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:ClaimReview
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating	not verifiable
schema:url	http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1930s-housewife-smile-therapy/
schema:text	On 5 October 2017, a Facebook page called "Pictures in History" shared a photograph supposedly depicting an American housewife in the 1930s who was committed to a psychiatric facility for the offense of failing to take "proper care of her husband": The caption, previously published by a Tumblr user in 2014, claimed that wives could be institutionalized and subjected to shock therapy for failing to smile often enough: In the 1930s, if a woman was considered "depressed" or if she wasn't "taking proper care of her husband" it was legal for her to be sent to a psych ward for a full attitude adjustment. This photo shows a smiling treatment used to condition a woman into always wearing a smile. Experts believed that if a woman saw herself smiling that it would become natural practice and she would be "cured." This often went along with shock therapy. The image, mysterious as it is, does not appear to depict a patient in an mental institution. On the contrary, the subject is wearing street clothes, jewelry, styled hair, and makeup. Far from clarifying the mystery, a reverse image search simply led us down a different rabbit hole to a 2014 article recounting a strange urban legend about an attempt to combat a suicide epidemic in 1930s Hungary by creating what was called a "smile club." The photograph was attributed (perhaps accurately, perhaps not) to an issue of a Dutch tabloid magazine called Het Levin published in 1937. We found no evidence suggesting that it was of American origin, or that it depicted a patient undergoing "smile therapy" in a mental institution.
schema:mentions	Electroconvulsive therapy Tabloid journalism Dutch language Mystery fiction The Photograph (2020 film) Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom Hungary Cure Suicide Facebook Reverse image search Tumblr Urban legend Professional wrestling throws dbpedia:American_Housewife
schema:reviewRating	Miscaptioned
schema:author	snopescom
schema:datePublished	2017-10-12 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/1dd4a8a85388e48efffc5e48b2e0af888d997ef78473ece1d8fc0804

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 2 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software