Can you tell a fake smile from a real one?

by PaulJ 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  misanthropic

  Man I really suck, I thought they were all a bunch of fakers, who can smile for "real" on que?
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  alreadygone

  16 out of 20
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  Dimples

  13 out of 20

  DIMPLES
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  seeitallclearlynow

  	Spot The Fake Smile Results You got 18 out of 20 correct Look at the labels below each image to see which smiles are genuine and which are fake. Ticks and crosses show which smiles you got right and wrong. That was fun.
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  Legolas

  Spot The Fake Smile Results You got 14 out of 20 correct Look at the labels below each image to see which smiles are genuine and which are fake. Ticks and crosses show which smiles you got right and wrong. Click on the image if you want to see the smile again. Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier for people to get along if they don't always know what others are really feeling. Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain. Fake smiles can be performed at will, because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain and prompt the zygomaticus major muscles in the cheeks to contract. These are the muscles that pull the corners of the mouth outwards. 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. Lines around the eyes do sometimes appear in intense fake smiles, and the cheeks may bunch up, making it look as if the eyes are contracting and the smile is genuine. But there are a few key signs that distinguish these smiles from real ones. For example, when a smile is genuine, the eye cover fold - the fleshy part of the eye between the eyebrow and the eyelid - moves downwards and the end of the eyebrows dip slightly. Scientists distinguish between genuine and fake smiles by using a coding system called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), which was devised by Professor Paul Ekman of the University of California and Dr Wallace V. Friesen of the University of Kentucky.

  14 outb of 20....
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  DanTheMan

  12/20

  I'm a cynical bastard I guess, I only thought two of the smiles were real. They all seemed fake, and midway through the survey I was expecting a something like "You might find it surprising but none of the smiles you just looked at were real" in the closing comments.
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  doofdaddy

  I got.....

  bored.

  There is so much more to judging a fake smile than staring at a video camera and smiling on que.

  Maybe I'll finish it when I have more time.
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  Scully

  15/20 correct Oddly enough, all of my errors were in attributing "fakeness" to genuine smiles. And all of the ones I misjudged as "fake" were by males.
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  myself

  You got 19 out of 20 correct
  

  I missed the third one.

  real fake
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  mrsjones5

  I got 17 out of 20 correct