Can you spot the fake smile?

12/20. I suck. And I agree about the British teeth; eaugh.

woohoo 9/20

:slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

11/20. Then again I’m probably borderline Asperger’s, so I was pretty much guessing anyway.

I got 15 out of 20. Missed all of them in the first 7 or so.

But:

I looked at their eyes… it seems that the real ones blinked at least once during their smile.

15/20

I predicted I would be average at spotting the fakes, and I was.

Funny, as I did the test I was thinking how very British (i.e. like me) everyone looked.

Well, apart from the Chinese woman…

13/20 . It was mainly how quickly they returned to non-smiling that I used as a cue (obviously not all that successfully). Did the # 13 big forehead girl have fangs? :eek:

E gads!

:smiley:
16/20

(how bout number 13, daaamn)

17 out of 20. Missed two genuines and one fake. And #13 just scared me.

Real smiles tend to

scrunch the eyes and eyebrows more

13/20.

And I thought Fang face (#13) was a guy with long hair? Oh well.

I had him down as a guy too. Isn’t that stubble of some kind?

15/20. Although I noticed afterwards, all the ones that actually made me smile were the real ones. And is it strange that videos of smiling people made me really happy? I gave the five I got wrong genuine smiles when they were fake. I should’ve gone with my instinct.

No–smiling is one of those universal social cues, so it’s no surprise to see it trigger a positive response. See Paul Ekman for more information.

16/20 for me. Most of the ones I got wrong were fake smiles that had a stronger real-smile cue than expected.

They did that fake eye-scruntch Cervaise mentioned

17/20 - Two genuine smiles that I thought were fake, and one vice-versa.

The thing that I was really paying attention to, and wasn’t mentioned in the concluding text, is that a genuine smile causes the muscles on the sides and top of head to move more, which generally has the effect of pulling the brow up just a little, and the ears move, although what direction is sometimes hard to tell, you can see them wiggle a little.

18/20 - better than I expected.

11/20 :frowning:

13/20 mostly got the men right and the women wrong.

15/20, and of the five errors, four were of men’s smiles (two mistakes each way).

This probably goes a long way towards explaining my dating history…

:smack:

Hee hee! Am I the first one to have gotten all 20 right?

13/20 correct.

I called 5 fakes as genuine.

2 genuine as fakes.