Spot the fake smile

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Surprisingly to me, I got a 14. More telling, however, is that I missed all six on the genuine smiles... it takes a lot of obvious and quantifiable characteristics for me to be able to discern if a person's expression is actually real, otherwise I generally assume it is forced/fake.


M.

16/20. I did surprisingly well.

I remember taking an online test once to see what emotion a person is experiencing by looking at their eyes, and I did really poorly. I'll let you guys know if I find the test.

I did this too.

I didn't do very well on this test. I got 9/20.

15 out of 20. I was looking for the expression after the smile.

18, kickass! Funny, considering I have zero ability to read body language.

I am very good at remembering signs I've been told, and I've had the difference between a fake and a real smile pointed out to me before. That means it's something I take in now, just like a lot more body language signals now that I found the non-verbal dictionary site.

I'm able to fake a smile incredibly easily as well.

I got 14. The trick is to look at how the smile ends, if it ends quickly it's likely fake. And also, some of them were smiling before the clip was playing, I think they were genuine too. It can't be too quick to start or to finish.

But I'm not comfortable looking at people too long, so in real life I can't tell as well. Also, I think most smiles are a bit of both, don't you?

I'm not sure I could do it from pictures, I did bad on the eye test, but I can do it from picking up energy. I find it scary and vaguely nauseating to be around overly forward people who use friendliness as a 'skill' rather than something genuine

I think the test is flawed.

Each one of those people was stood in front of a camera, after having agreed to participate in this study. I assume that the fake smiles were elicited by someone saying, "Smile" and the genuine smiles were elicited by someone attempting to make the person smile, or something like that. But how do you really get a genuine smile from someone in a situation like that? How does the person themselves truly know if they've given a genuine or fake smile? In some cases there will be no doubt, but in other cases there will be doubt. Or am I just completely out of touch?


I'm not sure if I even agree with the whole idea of dividing smiles into fake vs. genuine. It's not that simple. Where do you draw the line between "fake smile" and "genuine smile"? Are fake smiles always meant to deceive? I think the answer is no.


I got a 12, but I guessed on a lot of them. I guessed "fake" on many that were genuine, but not the other way around.

In real life, you have other clues, like context and personality.

I got a 15 out of 20. I was surprised at the ones I got wrong, though. I felt pretty confident with this test, as being a theater person/part-time-director, it´s basically my job to check for things like genuine looking smiles. I thought I´d get an even higher score. Oh well...

What´s really hard for me, though, is the reading the mind in the eyes test. Somehow whole faces are easier, there are more clues. And I guess I do look at mouths a lot.

11/20

Meh.

18/20

I got 15 out of 20 correct

I got 15 by just picking the ones that reminded me of my fake smile as genuine, and the ones that didn't as fake, funnily enough.

Same, somewhat.

The ones that I missed which were genuine were when I misread the relaxing of the muscles.

I can see the musculature of a human anatomy in my head though, and am aware that the ones around the eyes are much harder to trigger at will in a realistic fashion, so I deliberately work those when I fake a smile to make it look real.

If I didn't have the practice in front of a mirror years ago to fake a good one, and didn't think to choose the ones that looked like my fakes, I doubt I'd do well.

Doing this while talking to someone simultaneously though, gimme a test where they ask you to type out what was said through the speakers while judging the smile.