Spot the fake smile?

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18 Mar 2009, 4:55 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... ndex.shtml

This is an interesting quiz, see if you can tell if someone's really smiling or just faking it.
I only missed 3

There are several other interesting tests on there too, if you hunt around for them.

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18 Mar 2009, 5:03 pm

^^ I answered five incorrectly. ^^ I believe that was rather difficult for a number of the happy smiles.

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18 Mar 2009, 5:25 pm

It says I have to install Flash, which I have...three times. So screw your stupid little quiz.

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18 Mar 2009, 6:11 pm

easy there killa

I tried it in firefox and I have flash. Didn't work. Then I went to IE and it worked.

You got 13 out of 20 correct

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18 Mar 2009, 6:33 pm

Spot The Fake Smile
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You got 15 out of 20 correct

Of course it works on IE. Sorry about my little temper tantrum. lol :oops:

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18 Mar 2009, 8:31 pm

They were all fake, because they smiling on purpose. Smiling is a response. I have studied facial expressions and know the "science" behind it(though science doesn't seem like the correct term).

If you really know your expressions, you would say they are all fake, because they ARE. If it were a "true" smile, they wouldn't return to a frown so quickly.

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18 Mar 2009, 9:00 pm

if the smile goes up to the eyes, it might be genuine...so compare the face and eyes.

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18 Mar 2009, 9:09 pm

Sweet, I got 18/20 right I just guessed by the amount of blinking, eye crinkle, and shaking of the people. That was pretty lucky!

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19 Mar 2009, 1:01 pm

look at this person hmmm boy or irl??
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see fake person!!

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19 Mar 2009, 1:10 pm

I got 16 out of 20 correct. A lot of them were confusing though, because every one of them smiled quickly then stopped smiling making them all seem very fake. I was better at spotting the fake ones, sadly there were a couple fake smiles I know all too well, when I start rambling and people are pretending to be interested. :[

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19 Mar 2009, 2:46 pm

Well, so much for the theory that we're incapable of reading expressions.

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21 Mar 2009, 1:23 am

You guys are much better than me. I got 7 out of 20 right.

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21 Mar 2009, 1:53 pm

Fidget wrote:

A lot of them were confusing though, because every one of them smiled quickly then stopped smiling making them all seem very fake. I was better at spotting the fake ones, sadly there were a couple fake smiles I know all too well, when I start rambling and people are pretending to be interested. :[

Yeah they all seemed fake to me xD

I got 11 out of 20 correct

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22 Mar 2009, 4:49 am

17 out of 20 correct. Not too bad.

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28 Mar 2009, 2:09 am

IndridCold wrote:

I agree with this 100%.

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11 Apr 2009, 6:21 pm

IndridCold wrote:

Those were my thoughts too.

Nevertheless, I took the test and got 16 out of 20, which was pleasantly surprising. I did guess on a lot of them, though, so it may have just been luck. I mainly judged it on how quickly their facial muscles relaxed.

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