Spot The Fake Smile

16

I wasn't sure in 2 cases, checked genuine and they ended being fals. In most correct ones I started to smile with the person. I got for eyes too.

Bluestar said:
16. Two fake and two genuine were wrong.
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Me too :)
 
got a 16, missed 2 that were fake and 2 that were genuine. Interestingly my incorrect guesses were all during the first five when I was taking longer to decide. After that I went through faster and just went by gut.
 
16 for me :)

The ones I got wrong were numbers 1, 3, 7, and 17 - 2 genuines and 2 fakes. It looks like the ones I got wrong are the ones I hesitated on, so perhaps it was the second-guessing that did it.
 
It's all in the upper lip and cheeks. ;D

Have you ever smiled so much your face hurt? Think about where it aches at......it will be your middle face....the upper lip overlays the cheeks, and its there that a genuine smile happens.

In insincere smiler basically bares teeth at you, kind of like a chimpanzee. (If you watch chimps often enough it will pop out at you.)

I thought the test was pretty funny, since most of the folks trying to be insincere got the giggles and ended up genuine. :D
 
Mac said:
13
I looked at their expression before and after the smile. Whether the smile grew out of their overall disposition. Also the eyes helped.

Not sure if the those who designed the test got it right on all of them.

Mac
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This is interesting because I was focusing mostly on their disposition before and after and I only got 13 as well. The main thing that helped me correctly spot fakes was the quick return to a straight face with no lingering smiley-ness.
 
16, I was fooled by some of the fakes. Seeing how often I use fake smiles, I should really know how to tell the difference.
 
15 :)

I was looking in the eyes because I have heard that different muscles are used when you are really smiling and when you are faking it and one can tell in the eyes. Also I was trying to get a feel for the person and see if it felt like they were really happy or faking it.

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Genuine smiles, on the other hand, are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. When people feel pleasure, signals pass through the part of the brain that processes emotion. As well as making the mouth muscles move, the muscles that raise the cheeks – the orbicularis oculi and the pars orbitalis – also contract, making the eyes crease up, and the eyebrows dip slightly.
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aleana said:
I only got 15. I paid the most attention to the eyes - if they look "shifty", I don't trust anything about the person!
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I got 15 for me as well - the eyes were the ones that I focused on.
 
Akkk, I only got 11 correct. I was focusing on the sarcasm many seemed to express. Like smiling and then returning to a 'non-expression.' Some people looked really mad or irritated before and after their 'smile.' So when I 'judged' them on their 'mini-expressions' it turned out that I was incorrect. I was looking for signs of lying.

I also focused on the nodding or shaking their heads right after a smile. Nodding means to me "yes I am really smiling." Shaking the head means "I know this is an experiment, and I am feeling rediculious right now."

Most seemed fake to me. Oh well, I hope I'm not that bad in real life of figuring out smiles. LOL and :) <----------a real smile!!!
 
18. One fake, one genuine. Focused strictly on the eyes.

Now in real life, I tend to believe the smile because I want to be comforted. I want you to tell me everything is OK and I choose to believe the smiling faces. So it was quite interesting to me that with nothing but the face to work with I was so accurate.
 
16 for me too. I tried to focus on the eyes also but as some pointed out, I think the hesitation I made threw me off.
 
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