Fake Smile Test

[nottaprettygal]

This test is kind of interesting. It plays a short video clip, and you have to determine if the person's smile is fake or genuine.

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Spot The Fake Smile

I wonder if people's results will be similar to the results of the Eye Test.

I got 17/20. Sometimes the teeth were distracting.

 

[The Ü™]

16/20

 

[Ivy]

12/20! dayum!

 

[Falcarius]

You got 18 out of 20 correct.

Anyone who got the second one wrong needs help fast.

 

[disregard]

16/20

You just have to see if the bottom lids of their eyes raise when they are smiling. Neat test.

 

[The Ü™]

The eyes gave away the sincerity of the smiles, I found.

 

[nottaprettygal]

The eyes gave away the sincerity of the smiles, I found.

Agreed, but sometimes the teeth were so ghastly that it was hard to glance up at the eyes!

 

[SillySapienne]

Duchenne smile, i.e. not this

 

[Ghost of the dead horse]

You got 12 out of 20 correct

 

[heart]

I got 11 out of 20

I got all the fake ones but I seemed to think more of the geniune smiles were fake too. I would have expected that. I don't trust smiling faces.

 

[cafe]

14/20

 

[bluebell]

17/20

To be honest, I picked the genuine/fake in the still, before the video even started. And generally, you can tell from the eyes. crinkle = genuine

And I spent most of the time trying to work out how they'd managed to get a mix of genuine and fake smiles, and had a fairly robust theory by the end. Yay.

 

[Colors]

11/20. And I did really well on the eye test too! I think I did get better at recognizing the fake ones over time (6 wrong out of the first 10, 3 wrong out of the last 10).

 

[Wandering]

12/20. What can I say? I'm naive! People smile, I believe them

 

[aeon]

17/20.


cheers,
Ian

 

[proteanmix]

18/20

Shoulders and eyes.

 

[Jae Rae]

17/20. I got better as I went on - I missed 3 in the first ten, 0 in the second ten.


Jae Rae

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

#13 is scary.

16/20

 

[disregard]

18/20

Shoulders and eyes.

What do people do with their shoulders? Interesting..

 

[htb]

18/20. It's mostly in the eyes, but real smiles engage involuntary muscular sequences. Hard to describe. I missed the two rufous, hirsute men. Something about the effort and time required to grin.

Number 13: Straight out of Elfquest? A good deal of Britons look downright foreign. "And did those teeth, in ancient times..."