Distinguishing real from fake smiles quiz

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26 Feb 2013, 5:37 pm

Here's an interesting quiz that shows you a video of a smiling face and asks you to select whether the smile is real or fake. Not sure I've seen this posted here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... ndex.shtml

I got 17 out of 20.

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26 Feb 2013, 5:43 pm

I got 8 out of 20.

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26 Feb 2013, 5:50 pm

14/20

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26 Feb 2013, 5:52 pm

9/20.

I prefer detecting logical inconsistencies instead of looking at a face that can be faked.

I generally do not automatically trust what people say, i validate pretty much everything. Not because i suspect them to be lying, more because they may be right

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26 Feb 2013, 6:01 pm

Ichinin wrote:

This takes too much mental energy.

I didn't know there was a video you could play at first, so I might have gotten a few more right. Anyway....

What I figured out halfway through is this: the muscles on the side of the face indicate a real smile while the muscles in the front of the face indicate a fake smile.

You can be as analytical about this as anything.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:05 pm

14 out of 20.

It's easier when you take note of the very beginning and ending of the video. I noticed on some of the videos they would go from to to very abruptly. I probably would have gotten docked more if they did better job at editing.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:06 pm

17 out of 20. Misidentified two fakes as genuine, and a genuine as fake (one of those was the asian face, which confused me)

The key is in the eyes. If only the mouth moves, it's usually fake, but if the cheekbones rise, making the eyes close a bit, it is usually genuine.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:07 pm

I got 15 out of 20. Hmm.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:08 pm

15/20, did better than I thought I would.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:09 pm

15/20. I have some issues with face blindness in real life but I'm okay at these types of things. With these, the person's face is ALL you are being asked to process. It's much easier to miss something when you are actually interacting with someone, and processing their face, voice, their actual words, body language, what you are going to say in reply, and any distractions from the background.

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26 Feb 2013, 6:32 pm

13/20 I guess, if I saw them shake with laughter, I felt far more inclined to say genuine. I think I tried too hard to detect patterns that would give away whether it was 'real' or 'fake' and so very few of my answers were instinct. Anyway, interesting test...thanks for sharing, OP.

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26 Feb 2013, 7:07 pm

13/20

There were some, uh, "interesting" looking people in that quiz.

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26 Feb 2013, 7:32 pm

11/20

i thought i did so well.

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26 Feb 2013, 7:58 pm

16/20. I just remember reading somewhere years ago that you can tell if someone's smile is genuine or not by looking at the eyes. If they scrunch up, it supposedly means it is genuine.

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26 Feb 2013, 8:14 pm

12/20

i remember hearing that fake smiles are called "pan-am smiles" and it only uses 1 muscle in the face, so i just looked for that muscle.
that sounded weird, didn't it.

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26 Feb 2013, 8:32 pm

I hate this test more than the others, because I don't know what they mean by "real" versus "fake" smile. I do understand that a person can smile with the intention of deceiving someone else, but I don't understand how when they are filming someone smiling they can instruct them to do a "fake" or a "real" smile.

Wouldn't all smiles done within the context of an experiment be "fake"?

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