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* A "Stepford Laugh" is a common effect of marijuana. An uncontrollable laughter without any really pleasant distractions accompanying it.

** When the marijuana laugh is real (everything is funny), it's sometimes called "Cosmic Joke".

* Psychopaths are often of the Insane Type , being superficially charming but having no real emotions.

* Psychopaths are often of the Insane Type, being superficially charming but having no real emotions.

** Many have emotions all right, just not that of empathy. Others, on the other hand, end up committing horrible crimes with the simple goal to receive some kind of emotional stimulus, which quickly becomes addictive. The term is Shallow Affect, and 'describes the psychopath's tendency for genuine emotion to be short-lived and egocentric, with an overall cold demeanor'.

* Lot of people who try to live according to [[wikipedia:The Secret (book)|The Secret]] (and other similar Positive Thinking ideologies) can end up being ~~type~~ A, at least temporarily. It happens more often in the ones who try to get those principles to its logical extreme.

* Lot of people who try to live according to [[wikipedia:The Secret (book)|The Secret]] (and other similar Positive Thinking ideologies) can end up being the depressive type, at least temporarily. It happens more often in the ones who try to get those principles to its logical extreme.

** Barbara Ehrenreich talks in depth about this aspect of the positive-thinking movement in her book ''Bright Sided.''

* [[Disney Theme Parks]] Cast members typically will put on a Stepford Smile, no matter what kind of [[Jerkass|rude guest]] they may face. It's actually part of their job description to be smiling and welcoming towards any guest.

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* There's [http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1180396935#!/SonrioAunqueMeMueraPorDentro a Facebook page in Spanish] dedicated to this.

* The Westboro Baptist Church has a bunch of these people, most tragically in the children that have the misfortune to be part of it. During interviews they'll cheerfully talk about how you'll go to hell and reveal that they have no friends because everyone in school hates them due to their association with their church. The only time on TV that one person has slipped even a little, she was told by a reporter that if he thought that she was going to hell, he'd be sad. She cracked just a tad, then said she needed to go.

* Traditional people on the island of Bali are ''required'' to be this. To show anything other than your "bright face" invites evil spirits and curses, and might make other people sick. Devastating tragedy strikes? Laugh as if it's the funniest thing in the world. Your friends know you are really suffering, but will respect you for staying "bright". If your facade breaks, they'll surround you and laugh at your "insanity". It's closest to Empty Type , as "what counts is to try not to feel." All your social interactions must be carefully stylized to avoid giving offense to someone who might put a spell on you. (You don't know what they're thinking, because ''they're'' Stepford smiling). [[Crap Saccharine World|The smoothly perfect serenity of the Balinese is a masquerade]].

* Traditional people on the island of Bali are ''required'' to be this. To show anything other than your "bright face" invites evil spirits and curses, and might make other people sick. Devastating tragedy strikes? Laugh as if it's the funniest thing in the world. Your friends know you are really suffering, but will respect you for staying "bright". If your facade breaks, they'll surround you and laugh at your "insanity". It's closest to Empty Type, as "what counts is to try not to feel." All your social interactions must be carefully stylized to avoid giving offense to someone who might put a spell on you. (You don't know what they're thinking, because ''they're'' Stepford smiling). [[Crap Saccharine World|The smoothly perfect serenity of the Balinese is a masquerade]].

* A "stiff upper lip" is in a way the English equivalent of this.