Why I’m asking: for me it seems to affect me a lot. But I’m socially anxious, so when strangers smile it feels nice because my baseline is “humans = danger” and then I get confirmation that they are not. Meanwhile when they look at me with a cold stare it feels bad. How do other people see this?
For example nowadays I tend to go the gym on tuesday rather than monday because monday has an unfriendly receptionist (constant resting bitch face and monotone, never smiles) while tuesday has a really friendly one.