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Can you spot a fake smile? I got 15 out of 20.

8 Comments:

  1. Kai Carver said...
    13/20
    But they don't say how they determine whether the smiles are really genuine or fake. There are situations where I would have a hard time faking a smile without actually really smiling about the absurdity of faking a smile. So I think it's a bit of a silly test :(
    Anita said...
    9/20
    It was silly, but it was fun to watch all those ludicrous faces. I kept thinking they were all somewhat fake; how can you smile genuinely on command while being filmed? I was sure that gap-toothed guy was faking it...
    Claude said...
    17/20 - no cheating, really. Those psychologists do surely have a lot of fun preparing such experiences.
    Yu-Wen Yang said...
    8/20... ha!
    Same as Anita, I couldn't help thinking they were all fake and these people stopped smiling quite abruptly in these vedio clips.
    Erik said...
    I did this months ago, I even mentioned it to Tracy at the time and she seemed totally uninterested.
    I got 18/20. I did it while I was reading that book about the mind, and one of the chapters was about exactly this ability humans presumably share with other animals: completely instinctive recognition of emotions in others based on tiny physical cues. So maybe my sensitivity was heightened by thinking about this.
    tracy said...
    Oh yeah. I remember being uninterested in this all those weeks ago. I'm not really interested now, either, I just thought the videas were kind of interesting in a creepy sort of way.
    Chris Marstall said...
    13/20. i was the same as Yuwen. Anytime they stopped smiling abruptly without having a little smile left that they had to repress, I labeled it a fake.
    Gloria said...
    15/20; Yaaaay !! The problem is they all look fake. And i guess they are. how do you filma real smile. tell a joke ?

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