The 20 smilers are British, so if there is indeed is such thing as “English Reserve” it may have affected my judgement, in comparison to here, where, if a Southerner smiles ay you, you stays smiled-at.
The results page states that surpringly few people can accurately read smiles, but didn’t show how my results compare.
I only got 14 out of 20. One thing that struck me was how very unsettling almost all of the smiles were - if not the smile itself, the way each one vanished so suddenly at the end of the clip. I had a hard time thinking of any of them as genuine, really.
I got 15 out of 20. I was 12 for 14 but then I was getting so many fakes in a row that I started to question myself, so that’s why I missed half of the last six
I also got 17 out of 20, and had anticipated being quite bad at it.
Interesting looking group of people, no?
Any thoughts as to the methodology - how they got these people to “genuinely” smaile and then revert to somberness?
That puzzled me too, and was a bit distracting. If I have a big, genuine grin, it can take quite a while to disappear, but then I’ve not been under test conditions. Maybe they wait until you’ve grinned and then tell you your best friend just died. Or, more likely, distract you by asking you a question in order to make you concentrate. Dunno.