Came across this link today:
Rather interesting. Do you all think it’s a little too easy? Or hard?
:rolleyes: 
This has been brought up before. I usually miss one or two. For me, the eyes give it away.
I got 18 out of 20. I kind of thought it was easy but maybe that’s just me. Interesting link.
I got 15 out of 20.
I saw a programme recently which said a genuine smile involves far more muscles… particularly around the eyes.
Is that the one where all the people in the pictures have horrible British teeth?
Not easy. I got 18 out of 20. I think the blonde with the smooth hair had botox, the top half of her head barely moves.
I got nine of them. I knew in advance what to look for but just couldn’t make the distinction when it came time to pick an answer. All the smiles looked basically the same to me. Maybe this is why nobody came to my birthday party. 
So yeah, it’s hard, for me anyway. I’ll just tell myself that you’re all lying about your scores to make myself feel better.
What is a “fake smile”? When one contorts one’s face into a certain position, isn’t that a smile regardless of one’s emotion?
20/20 here. There were a couple that I wasn’t positive about, but I was pretty damn confident about them all.
For me:
I look at the eyes. Do they crinkle at all? Most of the fake ones I instantly spotted because even though their mouth formed a smile, the rest of the face didn’t “follow through”, if that makes sense.
I was going on instinct, even though I took that spoilered part into account. Many times, the ones that were genuine had me smiling with them. There were even a couple of fake smiles which creeped me out because they were obviously fake (so they had a slight ominous/threatening feel, to me).
I got 18 out of 20. The giveaway is motion of the muscles and skin around the eyes. Real smiles tend to have it. Fake smiles generally don’t.
Yeah, I also got 20/20, so I wanted a reality check. I did exactly what you did [in spoiler]. I had heard someone say something like that a long time ago, and it’s all I looked at – because I figured that’s what they were testing.
So, upon sober reflection, I don’t think I’m going to quit my day job and become a professional fake smile detector. I all did was take a test where I knew how they wanted you to answer.
continuity eror, I think you can actually ignore everything in the faces, and I mean everything, except what you’re supposed to look for, then it’s clearer.
Further reflection: actual social situations are more complex. Someone giving you a fake smile may be geniunely well-intentioned anyways; and now that the trick is out, liars are training themselves to do “real” smiles.
I got 17 of 20. It’s not easy, but like others have said, the key is to look at the eyes. With a genuine smile, the entire face contorts. With a fake smile, you often see only the mouth move. You can, IMHO, see this most clearly on one of the people:
The asian girl. She had an extremely obvious fake smile.
In the end, however, I only got most of them correct because I was actively looking for signs of fake smiling. In any normal social situation, I’m sure that I would miss all but the most obvious fakes.
I did notice the ones they said were genuine were also more emphatically, well, moving their heads -mostly nodding. The fakers - a couple moved their heads but one of them actually shook their head while smiling which kind of contradicted the smile, but most of them had much less movement. I guess I should watch out for that in my colleagues and trust the bobble-head dolls.
Easy. Not sure why, though. I suppose it has something to do with the rarity of genuine smiles in the real world.
how 'bout this… real or computer generated? : http://www.alias.com/eng/etc/fakeorfoto/quiz.html
I only got 12 out of 20. I guess I’m not very good at reading people.
19 out of 20. I took a Social Psychology class where I learned about the difference between forced smiles and genuine smiles. This is a good trait to learn in business, politics, even daily situations. Reading people is very important.
I expected to do pretty well, but I didn’t expect to get 19/20. And yeah, I did what zweisamkeit did in the spoiler box. Worked pretty well.
Diceman: Actually, that one person was the one I got wrong.
I thought that maybe she was faking, but then I just assumed she was being reserved.
15 out of 20
I got 17 out of 20. What clinches it for me is not just the
scrunching up of the eyes
but the
little blink afterward.
If #5 smiled any longer, I would’ve kicked a field goal at him.