Distinguishing real from fake smiles quiz

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17/20 - the ones I got wrong I had been unsure about. I kind of anticipated that I'd do quite well on this. I'm actually surprised at how poor some of those people seem to be at faking a smile. I only need to think about something funny and it comes, without seeming fake. That's probably why people don't know the real me, however. I put on a happy and everyone thinks I don't have a care in the world.
I noticed a few of the people with genuine smiles actually looked like they were laughing, as their heads were moving, so it wasn't just about the muscles around the eyes for me.

14/20.

I think I messed up the test up a bit, because for the first 6 of them I didn't realise you had to click to play the video (duh!) I thought you were just looking at the picture that was there so my answers were based on that. I therefore don't know if any of those turned out to be lucky (or unlucky) guesses!

15 out of 20 correct

14/20. Look for the eyes, I heard about that before and it proved useful

5. But almost all smiles seemed forced to me.

You got 13 out of 20 correct.

I identified 3 fakes as genuine and 4 genuines as fake. I wasn't sure about the first one as I expected to click on the video just as was mentioned but it started automatically. I noticed body movements too, it was a help, along with timing. A genuine smile is more prone to leave out the closed-mouth phase and usually doesn't end abruptly.

7. Gad.

Not even the researchers can know for sure who's faking the smile and who isn't. You can fake a smile even if you're a model being shown an image which is supposed to be funny but you don't happen to find funny at all. Stupid test.

I got 8/20, which doesn't mean the researcher is more right than me about whose smile is genuine.

All of the smiles are fake. Some of them are fake fake smiles and some of them are fake genuine smiles. But they are all staged.

That's the problem with these sorts of tests. They researchers present staged situations as if they were genuine situations rather than simulations. There is correlation to real life but it's still just a simulation that is being analyzed as though it were real life.

Those "figure out the emotion from ther eyes" tests have the same terrible weakness. The researchers always use pictures from movies and so they are using simulations of emotional expressions rather than people having actual emotions.

14 out of 20

i got 19, quite surprized i wasn't sure for some.

13/20 and I answered that I look at the cheeks. 5 males I identified wrong and 2 females. The blond and Asian I answered incorrectly. number 13.. I don't know what gender that is, but I got that one right. I thought the sudden drop of the smile was part of the genuine smile that should be stopped as part of coerced experiment... I guess those were the fake ones. Maybe because of the beard it is difficult to read in my case.

13/20, not as well as I thought I would do. I tended to look to see the rate at which the subject went from smiling to not smiling. I thought a genuine smile would linger a little longer. I forgot to look at the eyes, although I know that's a key factor.

I think some of the genuine smiles did linger a little. Even when the person went back to a neutral face, I felt that they were still smiling, in a way, obviously still thinking a bit about whatever made them smile.

Not necessarily. If this was done accurately, the 'genuine smile' actors will not have been told that the film crew were making images of real and fake smiles. They will have been shown or told something funny or which was likely to make them feel happy (and asked to confirm if they truly did think the thing was funny or made them happy or if they were just smiling to be polite). The fake smile actors will have been told to fake a smile, so they will have been 'in the know'.

I scored 12/20 and I used the same beginning/ending technique as pileo.