Can you spot a fake smile?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Here's an interesting test to see if you can spot a fake smile (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/index.shtml).

I got half of them right. If you know what to look for, the fake ones are supposedly pretty easy to spot. I obviously don't. :)

[CoasterMatt]

I got 9 out of 20 right... (where's the fake smilie?)

[wendybeth]

Eleven out of twenty.:rolleyes:

:D (real, or fake?)

;)

[Kevy Baby]

Twelve. Should have been 13, but I clicked one incorrectly.

[Baileykat]

Wow...I got 18 out of 20! It's all in the eyes!!! :D

[Morrigoon]

13 of 20

[DisneyFan25863]

18 as well here. But I knew about the eyebrow thing.

[Matterhorn Fan]

11 out of 20.

I think context can give away a lot, too. These smiles were all totally out of context.

[MerryPrankster]

13 out of 20.

[Not Afraid]

You got 11 out of 20 correct

Not as good as I thought I would do. I wasn't watching their mouths at all, but their eyes and cheeks. Still, I didn't do well.

[Prudence]

Did you notice that some of the genuine ones made you unconsciously smile back?

[€uroMeinke]

17 out of 20 - most of my judgement came from the post-smile-recovery though.

[Prudence]

I got 17 out of 20. Amusingly, I got all the fake smiles right, but I didn't trust some of the genuine folk.

Who me? Skeptical?

[libraryvixen]

11 out of 20.

I looked at the eyes, but that didn't work out for me!

[blueerica]

16 and i used the teeth.

[CoasterMatt]

16 and i used the teeth.
My sick mind came up with so many questions that that could be the answer to... :evil:

[Ponine]

18 out of 20... and I second guessed myself on the two I got wrong.. silly me.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

17.

I wonder how they got them to smile genuinely for the camera.

[Ghoulish Delight]

16 out of 20, and I'm an eye man.

[Moonliner]

Statistically equal to guessing. After reading the "hints" 18 of 20.

Plus I would just like to add, #13 is very scary looking. :eek:

I also wonder if this type of reseach has a practical application like being able to tell if a woman is faking it...

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

19 out of 20.

I read an article a while ago that said to look at the eyes and not the mouths. Apparently the article was right!

[SusieP.]

16 here. I could have had 18 but I was also more skeptical of a couple of the genuine smile men. A real smile kind of engages the whole face more or something, like this: :D

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Plus I would just like to add, #13 is very scary looking. :eek:Yeah, many of them were odd looking British people. ;) I wonder we would do better with Americans.

[Claire]

Plus I would just like to add, #13 is very scary looking. :eek:

Terrifying! She/he is going to give me nightmares this week!

I got 11. I identified most of the fake smiles...for me it was the eyes and post-smile looks. Some freaked me out they were so fake. And.....skeptical me....had a hard time spotting the genuines.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Yeah, many of them were odd looking British people. ;) I wonder we would do better with Americans.

Another hint, from that article I read about American vs British smiles, is that Brits tend to smile with open mouths, while Americans show off their front teeth. But I think the article may have also argued that Americans tend to employ fake smiles more than Brits, do. I can't quite remember. That may have been my own little adlib. It helped to identify genuine Brit smiles, though. In addition to the eyes, I checked to see if their mouths were opened wide.

[mousepod]

I got 13. I wonder why I care. If someone gives me a "fake smile," I'm usually happy for their effort.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

13/20
Probably should have been 14/20, but I was thrown off by #9's cuteness. ;)

And yeah, #13: chick or dude...? :eek: