Spot the Fake Smile

[bubbles]

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I usually don't like online tests, but this one is pretty interesting.

"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."

I got 12 out of 20. So I guess this means that the higher the score the harder it is to get along with people (i.e., A high score means you're more likely to be a misanthrope)?

[lowbrass]

I got 14 out of 20, but as I went further along, I didn't realize that hitting the "previous" button would also allow me to replay the video again. So, it could have been 16 or higher for me if I had elected to hit the previous button back to the beginning.

I really don't know what it says about me. Naturally, many of us here can be classified as somewhat harder to get along with. BUT, I did really well with that other test that asked us to pick what the subject's eyes were demonstrating. I don't know how I'd excel at these things when I have trouble with eye contact to begin with, and, like everyone else, when my social interactions haven't been big on conversing.

For this test, though, it seemed that I just had to follow a discernible pattern. That is, if I observed enough usage in the muscles around the eyes, I could choose correctly. If those muscles were static, it was fake. If they seemed more visibly contracted, then it was genuine.

The ones that fooled me had super huge smiles which utilized more muscles in the face.

[xhaan]

Hmm. Interesting.
I got 14 of 20, the six I missed are an even split, three fakes that were genuine, three genuine that were fake. I also think I got psyched out by the assumption that some of them WILL be fake, or genuine, which causes second guessing (at least with me) I went by whether the smile seemed more voluntary or not.

It might have been really interesting if they were secretly all genuine or all fake, and you didn't know it until the end.

[yondyr]

17/20.....oftentimes it depended upon a quick return to 'normal' indicating a smile on demand, but even so not easy

[Firelie]

14 out of 20.

I always look to the eyes to see whether or not they mean it when they're smiling, but some of their faces in this exercise didn't move enough to tell me.

Very interesting.

[thegnat]

17/20! That means I can read people like a book muahaha At least if they're genuine or not... Probably because I fake smile...I can recognize it easily...

[yondyr]

after awhile though, I got to thinking, if I were standing in front of a camera, doing the silly experiment and someone said 'smile' the whole scenario would be so ludicrous that any smile I would come up with would be genuine...

[RoqueBear]

18/20.. I looked at the eyes almost exclusively. There were more than a few cuties who were easy on my eyes... I messed up on two of the older faces. When your that old, I'm sure you've had a lot more experience perfecting that fake smile. Reviewing, the ones I got wrong, they were genuine but I erred on the side of assuming it was a fake smile.

So this mean I'm a misanthrope, I really do hate people some times. However, its not my fault I'm observant. I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of character usually.

[xhaan]

after awhile though, I got to thinking, if I were standing in front of a camera, doing the silly experiment and someone said 'smile' the whole scenario would be so ludicrous that any smile I would come up with would be genuine...

Yeah exactly, which led me to think about the whole 'they're TRYING to be fake' thing. If it's determined whether they are real or fake, then one or the other is intentionally displayed... which messes with my mind.

[bubbles]

I would probably have scored higher, too, if it wasn't for the "play" button I kept clicking on it while I wasn't paying attention. It's probably no coincidence that most of us INTJs scored pretty high. Most of us are probably skeptical people who question things.

[Hoorurly]

13 out of 20. Pretty interesting test, but not sure it means much. If I'm standing in front of someone, there lots of indicators letting me know if someone is genuinely smiling. My husband who made his living reading people and their reactions, only got 10 out of 20.

[Drayakir]

18/20. Heh

[Wapiti]

Yeah exactly, which led me to think about the whole 'they're TRYING to be fake' thing. If it's determined whether they are real or fake, then one or the other is intentionally displayed... which messes with my mind.

I agree. It messes with my mind in the sense that if it is all fake, then why did I score 14/20?

[AgentofGaming]

I don't typically analyze faces so 14/20 isn't so bad for me.
I have a bad habit of looking at the floor when I talk to people.

[BlueTopaz]

I got 15/20. I fancied myself as being able to read people. Guess not. I also look almost exclusively at the eyes to differentiate.

[karen]

You got 15 out of 20 correct

I wish I had known about the 'previous' botton, there were a couple that I wanted to see again.

[Kfbr]

12/20 woo I suck

Man, those were some goofy looking people

[AgentofGaming]

Man, those were some goofy looking people

I still have images of the one who has a missing tooth fresh in my mind.

[szaxazs]

14/20 and to be honest I thought at first that most of them were fake :wideeyed:

[Ilikepepper]

15/20 - Maybe I should hand in my NF card! :suspicious:

The lighting in their eyes was pretty messed up. *disconsolate NF grumbling* :irked:

[Jkeenan]

16/20. I identified all of the fake ones, which I think is interesting. I just need to avoid hanging the innocent.

[Aoiluna]

15/20. I actually thought I did worse, I too wish I had known I could go back. I look to the eyes, but its more difficult if the person is not right there in front of you for some reason.

[BlueTopaz]

My question is, if they knew they had to smile, or if they were smiling "on cue" how could any of them be genuine?

[Jkeenan]

My question is, if they knew they had to smile, or if they were smiling "on cue" how could any of them be genuine?
I imagine that they presented some stimulus to make them laugh or smile and cut the video to that exact moment. A lot of the ones that I identified as genuine shook slightly as if they were laughing.

[Astra]

18 out of 20. I got the last two the wrong way round.

I agree a lot of the genuine ones included some shoulder-action or head-wiggling, so not that hard to spot. The fake ones did go back to dead-pan too quickly as well.

Re the teeth, you've got to remember the BBC is a British organisation...

[thecraig]

I got 15 out of 20 wich was actually better then i predicted I would do. On another note, some of those folks were really strange looking.

[BadMojo]

16 / 20 - looked at eyes and facial tension

[Julian]

Having to watch British people smile should be a crime against humanity :yuck:

/Only kidding :laugh:

//Oh, and I missed six.

[muguly]

16/20 It's all in the eyes!

[AliciaS2R]

15 of 20 The ones I got wrong I guessed as fake. It is in the eyes. I read the explanation at the end, went back and took the test over and got 20/20.

[ssfanatic]

15 :)

[JTG]

17/20

I've always been very interested in nonverbal communication. I love reading people, and practicing at recognizing patterns of movement/expression.

[INTJoe]

I got 18/20...I missed #6 and #17. But coming into the test I'd already heard that the corners of eyes crinkle up during a genuine smile, so I knew what to look for.

IRL, I do believe that I'm pretty good at spotting fake smiles. I hate them, too. Sometimes I just want to say "Get that fake-ass smile off your face." lol. But then I'd get comments like "OMG, that guy is crazy!"

[Paul V]

I had already taken this test before, and I got a 17/20. Now I got 16/20. I suppose since I haven't been in contact with people lately, I'm a bit rusty.

[Sleeper]

8/20 and I actually studied body language, guess I didn't learn well enough, thats for sure, I was trying to figure out from the dilution of the pupil.

Well hopefully the body will give you away faster than your face.

[fonmaneal]

14/20 I dont truly care if there smiles are real or not. I just hope they dont try to tell me stupid jokes!

[ArchonAlarion]

wow I got 17/20.

I really didn't think I'd do that good

[NeonTetra]

Woohoo!!!

Spot The Fake Smile
Results
You got 18 out of 20 correct

Eyes...I looked for people who's eyes didn't crinkle when they smiled. Also I looked for how much teeth showed and if shoulders shook. Usually if someone's shoulders are shaking it indicates genuine laughter. When you laugh your whole body gets into it. ;D

[integratedvelocity]

19/20

I watched the eyes and the progression of the smile, along with additional body movement. I had taken it a few months ago, and I'm sure I got the same guy wrong both times.

[Duncan Cade]

I got 15/20, i messed up all the last three.:thinking:

15 is higher then expected, but still I have some complaints! I am an INTJ, I overanalyze. Caused me to be very confused.

In the beginning, I just pressed fake or genuine. But then I started thinking.
If it's a genuine smile, then how can they record it with a white background? Did they tell really good jokes or something?
Aren't ALL smiles fake? I don't get it..

[aok]

15/20....but I tried to take an optimistic slant towards the genuine side...which were 4 of the 5 I got wrong...so I guess my more cynical slant on the fakeness of people is the closer to accurate

[burazekun]

Spot The Fake Smile
Results
You got 14 out of 20 correct

I knew I was wrong on a couple of them but wouldn't let me play it back to realize that so I miss marked them and continued. Bah! Oh well if most people are bad at it and I got a good 14/20 that is decent.

[eternaltriangle]

11/20, pretty much what I would have gotten from guessing.

[Lei Yang]

14/20. Didn't realize I could PLAY THE VIDEO until I was halfway through. >.<

[Sod]

Fun test. I scored 16/20, more than I expected. I got two wrong out of the first three, so perhaps I need to warm up. I equally mistook fake for genuine and vice versa (2 of each). Major clues were changes in and near the eyes and body movement. Apparently you can tell a fake smile if the non-favoured side of their lips doesn't move much compared to the other. But first you need to know the favoured side. One can infer based on handedness, but this can be problematic. Some people (such as myself) favour their right hand, but are right-brained and, in most other respects, favour the left side of their body. Thus, you really need to know whether the person is left or right brained, or observe enough of their fake smiles to discern their favoured side.

Like some others, I questioned the reliability of getting real smiles on camera in what appears to be an artificial setting. The test makers could have been screening a comedy, telling jokes, etc. Then there are strange people like me who can bring on a genuine smile at the least provocation. Sometimes I smile just because I think of smiling, or smile because I'm trying not to smile. So, I'm confident that the test makers could've captured some real smiles if they were resourceful.

[slfalconfan07]

I got a 17/20. I think it's extremely annoying when you receive a fake smile in real life. Either smile genuinely or don't smile at all.

[TheLastMohican]

I got 16/20. Some of those people were pretty good at faking the smiles. I think we would probably score better when judging the smiles of amateurs. That is just based on how often the fake smiles bother me in photographs.

[Myrak]

12/20. I do much better in real life, with all factors such as body and verbal communication incorporated.

[Mafiaangel180]

Wow...I did horrible!! 13 out of 20?? So much for being able to read people.

Is it just me or did they pick the most God awfully ugly people?! I think I was too busy looking at their ginormous heads to even notice their fake smiles. And since it's a planned experiment, I wonder....aren't they all fake? Hmmm.

[Ainegue]

"You got 15 out of 20 correct "

I focused on the eyes as well, but for a long string of them, I just said - 1.FALSE 2.FALSE 3.FALSE 4.FALSE... (you get the idea). The people did look kinda creepy to me...

I would noticed that they'd squint quite a bit, laugh, and sorta jump around in a way. I found that odd, because I've actually just gotten out of my seat, stood in front of a mirror and fake smiled. Strangely, my eyes squint (and all that stuff they said a genuine smile had) nevertheless, even though I was fake smiling.

[cda]

my results leave much to be desired... total was 12/20. In the beginning I concentrated on the mouth and only got 4 right...then I concentrated on the eyes and got 8 out of 10.

[TheLastMohican]

I would noticed that they'd squint quite a bit, laugh, and sorta jump around in a way. I found that odd, because I've actually just gotten out of my seat, stood in front of a mirror and fake smiled. Strangely, my eyes squint (and all that stuff they said a genuine smile had) nevertheless, even though I was fake smiling.

That's because you are good at it. INTJ's probably tend to be. Most people, when faking a smile, will exaggerate it as much as possible to seem more genuine. That results in little eye crinkling and a lot of painful-looking stretching of the mouth.

[meanlittlechimp]

I got 20/20, but it wasn't really fair. I ordered Eckman's CDs a few years ago, and I got something like 94% accuracy guessing on high speed, which is much harder (because you have to guess out of 7 emotions - fear, sadness, disgust etc) and many of the expressions are only shown for a fraction of a second.

After I did the training, I got up to 100%. My guess is that ENTPs, ESTPs, and ENFPs would tend to be the best, since they're known for reading people well.

The eyes are the most important, but it's also the corners of the mouth. For a millisecond, they'll turn downward, when it's fake.

Fascinating article in the New Yorker, which led me to get the CDs.
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[Uberfuhrer]

16/20

[eclecticjoker]

I got 18/20. I looked at the eyebrows mostly. One of the ones that I got wrong I watched again, and I'm not sure why I thought it wasn't genuine. It had the genuine pattern. The other one looked like the gal had friggin botox in her forehead, it was so fake looking. But it was genuine, apparently.

Since I do so much acting junk, I'd feel bad if I couldn't recognize a real or fake smile. XD

[TheLastMohican]

I got 18/20. I looked at the eyebrows mostly. One of the ones that I got wrong I watched again, and I'm not sure why I thought it wasn't genuine. It had the genuine pattern. The other one looked like the gal had friggin botox in her forehead, it was so fake looking. But it was genuine, apparently.

Since I do so much acting junk, I'd feel bad if I couldn't recognize a real or fake smile. XD

She probably did have botox. They were trying to fool you.

[bubbles]

I read somewhere that some muscles in the face aren't used in a fake smile. The eyes also give it away. If you know where to look, (for some reason INTJs know well) you can easily spot it.

[Serket]

17/20 not too shabby

[pensivemuse7]

15/20
I looked at the eyes.
I'm better at picking out people who are fake. That's more important.

[Kuriozidee]

If you really want to get crazy, check this out...

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You can also check out the FACS coding which is used by the FBI for profiles. This is some of the same stuff that magicians study when they are 'guessing' what someone is thinking. It's the fine motor twitch in facial muscles that you can learn to recognize with practice.

[lingg]

BUT how could a smile be genuine when you are asked to stand in front of a camera and smile?!
isnt it already fake when you do it on purpose??
i almost clicked all fake but i m still on question 10...





lingg added to this post, 7 minutes and 25 seconds later...

i got 11/20 hah!

[Rei]

17/20...
not bad =/

People who're smiling genuinely tend to crinkle their eyes more.
Of course, there are just some people who're physically unable to crinkle their eye. *cough*botox*cough*

[True Rune]

17/20, I was confident in my answers too. It's interesting because I never really tried this before, nor really care about it in real life... maybe I have a talent here? (Though it may be INTJ-ness?)

[Rei]

17/20, I was confident in my answers too. It's interesting because I never really tried this before, nor really care about it in real life... maybe I have a talent here? (Though it may be INTJ-ness?)

I don't usually pay attention to it either, but I think I read about it at one point. I guess if I ever really HAD to pick it out I'd probably be pretty good.

I think it's an "N" thing

[True Rune]

Makes sense to me. I think I'll go with that too.

[Kaethus]

11/20 I'd say my poor score is due the fact that I realized I didn't care if their smile was fake or not. Besides, I really wanted to say everyone's smile was fake, because they are part of a study with a camera in their face. What if the stimulus wasn't that amusing, then the smile would be diminished by it. Or if the person smiled at everything and laughed at everything, then smiling is seen as being something extremely basic and therefore not that much energy was put into it.

Eh...

[Mogura]

14/20 :)

[Zirka]

16/20 quite good.

[Maija]

Oh my god, almost all of them looked fake to me in the beginning! How can anyone return to normal serious face after a genuine smile`? Do we know how they defined genuine and fake anyway`? I only got half of them right.

[azelismia]

I agree, there were some frightening people in there, was it a smile or was it an indication that they plan on consuming you for dinner. I has toofs with which to eat you, Lemme shows you dems.... *Shudder* They must have got them from a casting call for a zombie movie.

I got 17/20. I was looking for eye crinkle.

[rvi]

16/20

[Capwolf]

What is "surprisingly bad" according to the BBC? Below 75%? I did decently; I missed four, which is at least a B grade. I misread both fake and real smiles.

How can anyone return to normal serious face after a genuine smile`?

That's the tell for me, or part of it anyway. "Look at the eyes" has been sincerity-gauging advice for enough years for it to have filtered into everyone's fake-smile repertoire. It looked like only one or two people in the test didn't try it, so unless everyone else here knows something I don't know about it, I'm not sure how they passed the test using that standard.

I don't usually bother trying to figure out if other people are faking, though, unless it's to see how they do it or for a game like this. If they're going to fake a smile, I'll react to the smile. Cuts down on a lot of social annoyances, most importantly:

What's up?
Nothing.
No, really--I can tell something's wrong.
I don't want to talk about it--well, no, I do, and let me tell you at length....

[wonderbucks]

I got 18/20. The two I got wrong were women. It is probably social conditioning that go me to believe that women's smiles are more geniune.

[Rowan]

I got twelve out of twenty correct, which is much higher than I estimated that I would get. However, I was already aware of the telltale signs of a fake smile so my rather moderate ability to notice is very academic.

[Duncan Cade]

The following 4 things work for me:

- In case of shoulder shaking, the smile is genuine. However, non shoulder shaking does not make the smile fake.
- A genuine smile will fade slowly. A fake starts big, and then disappears very suddenly
- As we all know already, eye crinkling indicates a genuine smile.
- In case of doubt, I'll label them as fake.

As far as I know, that's all I analyze. And God, yes, they were ugly.

[Kaspre]

18/20

I scored two genuine smiles as fake. :rolleyes:

That probably says something about me. I'm fairly cynical about this whole "smiling" thing. I'm not likely to be fooled by a fake smile, but at the cost of overlooking genuine feeling from time to time... :undecided:

[robotix]

13/20. I thought more were fake than was true.

[Bluestocking]

I got 14 out of 20. Is that higher than normal? I read the eyes, not the smile. Or maybe I just assume that since I've learned how to fake a smile in social situations everyone else is doing the same thing!

[the human iPod]

16 out of 20, here. I wanted to see one of them again, but it wouldn't let me, so I blindly guessed. I think that deserves a bump up to my score. >_>

[MCR]

17/20.

The eyes are what I look at too.

[mental drift]

8/20 but I bet I could tell you which ones didn't take care of their teeth. Scary jokers, I almost jumped out of my seat. What bitter because I couldn't get more right, gullible might be a better response. J/K not too good at reading body language I guess.

[Fuchikoma]

12/20

the asian girl was just too pretty to put her on fake :(

i put more "fakes" than "genuines" like many here, but i think that its beacause you know you will be shown some fake smiles so you raise you distrust.

[Dystopia]

16/20.

I didn't expect to do well. I thought this would be more suited to F types, who understand the social rituals better. But perhaps the INTJ should do well, now I think of it. More social types use these fake social rituals to get along with each other better, so it's in their interest to not know. Whereas we see right through them. Naturally, all the four I got wrong were genuines that I thought were fake. I see most people as fake deep in their hearts so I probably projected that fakeness into their eyes.

[searcher]

17. There were several clues as to wether they were fake or not.
1 - no movement of shoulders/head indicated fake
2 - no eye lid movement (creasing) indicated fake
3 - really big over the top smiles are genuine more often than you think
4 - excess eye movement (twitchy) indicated fake
.......

[Big Grizzle]

20 out of 20.

I guess I know when people are lying to me.

[iMiki]

Yay, I got 20 out of 20. :thumbsup:

I guess this is due to the development of my F.
But, my T is still dominant. :)

[JILebedev]

20/20. Remember that genuine smiles most often radiate a care-free attitude involving head wiggling, bare teeth, change in ocular response, etc.

[brettsnyder]

20 of 20.
Smiles are the only kind body language I have been good at understanding. Kind of strange, I guess. At any rate, it allows me to cut through peoples' bull.

[AutumSpice]

17 out of 20. I knew 2 of them were wrong too, but second guessed myself. I hate people to be fake. It is the same as lying to me.

[Genuine]

17/20

I keep selecting genuine smiles as fake smiles...

[hongi]

19/20 . . . now if I could only in real life and in real time!

[jay c]

I rated myself poorly, but I scored 16/20. I watched for eye crinkling and head bobbing to judge genuine smiles.

[inactiveoffense]

I got 16/20. I never hit the back button. Sometimes when I'm talking to someone I can read their body language (I've studied many books on body language) and sometimes if I see a negative motion (biting their lip, crossing their arms) I try to diffuse the situation or go away. It's almost like I can read their minds sometimes, it's really a benefit. I can feel a situation this way. Sometimes I'm wrong though, and I'll misinterpret what the body language of a particular person is. It takes practice.





inactiveoffense added to this post, 3 minutes and 5 seconds later...

I always looked for the eyes and whether they crinkled. I never knew the ends of the eyebrows would turn down and the folds of the eyelids would lower in a genuine smile. This is very interesting. I'm sick of people's BS and learning this stuff will help me filter through that.

[olsonlj1]

17/20

[Nameless]

I got 17/20, which I thought was really good, until I saw that everybody else also got high scores too. Now I feel like crap. I actually judged the smile off of how it was formed - most real smiles look kinda ugly if you freeze frame them. Plus the eyes. Most eyes don't just stay alone.

[RDFDR]

18/20. I just sort of knew, but I suppose it was the synchronization of the eyes with the smile that did for me.

[Isolation]

Wow I got 17/20

I said that it was all in their eyes.
Also, some were so genuine in their smile that it looked like they were laughing.
Also, when someone arched their eyebrow it totally gives them away. Like they are telling us that they feel ridiculous or they're saying "give me a break"

[Elfrun]

I did the first two then got bored, what does that mean? ;D

[Snowdragon]

I got 16/20, I wonder if it has something to do with my primary function: extroverted iNtuition? I wonder how other ENTPs and ENFPs scored...


I looked at the eyes; the eyes are a dead giveaway.





Snowdragon added to this post, 6 minutes and 41 seconds later...

I got 20/20, but it wasn't really fair. I ordered Eckman's CDs a few years ago, and I got something like 94% accuracy guessing on high speed, which is much harder (because you have to guess out of 7 emotions - fear, sadness, disgust etc) and many of the expressions are only shown for a fraction of a second.

After I did the training, I got up to 100%. My guess is that ENTPs, ESTPs, and ENFPs would tend to be the best, since they're known for reading people well.

The eyes are the most important, but it's also the corners of the mouth. For a millisecond, they'll turn downward, when it's fake.

Fascinating article in the New Yorker, which led me to get the CDs.
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Ha! I knew it all along! ;D

[PeterIMC]

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I got 16 out of 20 and actually misjudged 1 fake smile. (misjudged 3 real smiles for fakes)

How Good are you at seeing the difference between real and fake smiles?

[TravelnTrain]

12 out of 20...need to go to fake smile summer school..interesting though. I'm always intrigued by his research.

[integratedvelocity]

I've taken this twice, I think I got 20 the first time and 19 the second, though it could be switched around. All you do is look at the eyes and eyebrows. Once you get it down, it's fun to watch politicians on TV without sound :)

I'll admit that I'm horrible at interpreting other facial expressions. My recognition is limited to smiles.

[PeterIMC]

I've taken this twice, I think I got 20 the first time and 19 the second, though it could be switched around. All you do is look at the eyes and eyebrows. Once you get it down, it's fun to watch politicians on TV without sound :)

I'll admit that I'm horrible at interpreting other facial expressions. My recognition is limited to smiles.

Yes, smiles are pretty easy to read. Many muscles controlled by feeling are around the eyes. Those are very revealing.

[phej]

Yes, smiles are pretty easy to read. Many muscles controlled by feeling are around the eyes. Those are very revealing.

Except that in this test, everybody's face returned to a neutral state. I got 19/20 because I momentarily zonked out while looking at one.

Did anybody see the "disgust" test? Gah! I wouldn't have expected mouth care to get so bad... (The test claims those are maggots)

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[burke]

16/20. I missed 3, 8, 17, and 19. Smiles are fairly easy to differentiate between real and fake though. I'm currently reading "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Allan and Barbara Pease, its pretty entertaining if you enjoy things of the sort.

[Night Runner]

I got 17 out of 20 right - wasn't too sure on the other 3. I'm kind of surprised that some (most?) people can't detect fake smiles. That would explain some of the irrationality in this world of ours... (And why I'm still single.)

I'm currently reading "The Definitive Book of Body Language" by Allan and Barbara Pease, its pretty entertaining if you enjoy things of the sort.
Funny - I just sold this book on Amazon a few weeks ago. Your initials wouldn't happen to be TJ, by any chance?

[ReiJi]

18/20 a couple that I thought were genuine were actually fake :(

[SRVcardsfan27]

You got 16 out of 20 correct

Wrong on numbers: 1, 3, 16, 19.

[Plane Stress]

16/20... got two genuine ones wrong and two fake ones wrong... 3, 4, 5, and 11.

[Autoptic]

the old thread (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

See? This stuff I remember, and for what?:sulk:

[sapphire]

17 out of 20....better than I thought....does anyone think certain myers briggs are better at detecting true smiles?

[phej]

17 out of 20....better than I thought....does anyone think certain myers briggs are better at detecting true smiles?

I don't know, but the people who are bad at detecting true smiles (assuming they're untrained) are autistics. Do any of the MBTI types tend to be autistics? I don't think that there are, but I've not delved too deeply in those statistics.

[llBradll]

I got 13/20 correct. I got better at the end. I'm not sure whether that was luck or I improved as the test went on.

[LPM]

17/20 but it seemed like I was guessing a lot. The real smilers actually tried to supress their smiles, which was the biggest tip off.

[PeterIMC]

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See? This stuff I remember, and for what?:sulk:

I guess it would have been more surprising if this actually would have been the first time this test was mentioned in this forum.. :) I'm not long enough here to have seen all the threads I guess.

[dalidaisy]

18 out of 20, I missed a couple of genuines. I guess that's better than the other way around when you're trying to read people...

[LPM]

18 out of 20, I missed a couple of genuines. I guess that's better than the other way around when you're trying to read people...

Depends on whether you'd rather error on the side of being cynical or naive.

[burke]

I got 17 out of 20 right - wasn't too sure on the other 3. I'm kind of surprised that some (most?) people can't detect fake smiles. That would explain some of the irrationality in this world of ours... (And why I'm still single.)


Funny - I just sold this book on Amazon a few weeks ago. Your initials wouldn't happen to be TJ, by any chance?

nope. bmw =) Plus I bought it at barnes and noble. Or was it borders.. hmm..

[cmrain]

I correctly Identified 9/20.

I think I have the lowest score. Could have done better with blind guessing.

I might have to work on this. I guess I have never paid much attention to whether someone is genuine in a smile or not. Some people really love my smile in pictures, but it is 100% fabricated. I think that supports the notion that most people get it wrong. I am no exception.

[NoStoneUnturned]

13 out of 20. When I took the test I looked for how fast the mouth went back to normal.

I got 18/20...I missed #6 and #17. But coming into the test I'd already heard that the corners of eyes crinkle up during a genuine smile, so I knew what to look for.


Funny, because when I fake smile, that's the one thing I make sure I do: smile so hard the corner of my eyes crinkle up. I guess i'm just counter intuitive or something like that and most people aren't...

[NonSequitur]

19 out of 20. I pretty much focused exclusively on the eyes (and shoulder movement as some people pointed out).

I'd actually be interested to see how other people judged my smile. I feel like the general consensus is that INTJ's come off as un-genuine whether we are or not. I don't think I have a convincing fake smile judging from photographs.

[EmmaKynikos]

18/20

[mozi84]

16 / 20. The four smiles I got incorrect were all guys.

[Calica]

18/20 The eyes are the key. Most wrinkle when you smile sincerely and not when you try to fake it.
I had the 3. and the 11th wrong.

[idem]

17/20, which is better than I expected. I felt like I was guessing on most of them.

[ArtistTyrant]

20/20...eyes reveal everything

[Cuddlefish]

You got 15 out of 20 correct.

Missed #'s: 5, 8, 12, 15, & 20.

[ssrprotege]

I did this by myself once and my intro psych class did the same test (as a class). I think I got 16/20 when I did by myself; the class got perfect score.

[Pepperjinks]

17/20

[JCrow]

19 out of 20!!! NICE!!! Riding high on the confidence wave!

[Zodd]

12/20

[Wordsmith]

6/20, well I am a misanthrope. Being wrong that much though is annoying.

[Theaetetus]

12/20 woo I suck

Man, those were some goofy looking people

Exact same. I don't know how the test-makers managed to average the strangeness of each face near perfectly.

[pocohauntus]

12 of 20. now, let me just tell you that when i actually recognized the person irl, i checked off the smile as fake even if i felt it to be genuine because if you're one of the people i know irl who is putting your own face to this little test - you're a fake!

[plotthickens]

Every clip went by in a blip, so marked every one as fake and got 10/20.

[Axel]

They all look fake to me.

[Mind Marauder]

15/20

[fwiffo]

Oooh, not bad. 17/20.

[LordCorbin]

18/20
I have limited experience with this to be sure, but the key is in the face muscles and how they look around the eyes when its a genuine emotion.

[greenzebra]

15/20.
Not sure if I'd have more than 10 in real life.

[Charmed Pop]

I got 16/20

I missed 3, 8, 16, and 19. I judged them primarily on how far their cheeks streched upward and how quick of a return to normal position they had.

[sairakh]

12/20 but if they are smiling on demand, then aren't they all fake?

[alighieri]

17/20. You have to look at the eyes

[coffeeforme]

19/20... guess that intuition is really working!

[N0c7urn3]

20/20, but I already was familiar with Ekman's research, so ...

[stein]

16/20

16 / 20. The four smiles I got incorrect were all guys.
I did the same thing

[Athene]

Spot The Fake Smile
Results
You got 16 out of 20 correct

---------- Post added 08-11-2010 at 08:31 PM ----------

12/20 but if they are smiling on demand, then aren't they all fake?Some of them have been told something funny and are really smiling/laughing.

[Judoka]

i did that one long ago
i scored 16\20

[ikush]

16/20

[Shagrath]

I sucked. 7/20

I think that's mostly explainable by my lack of interest in most people's emotional states and my inability to care whether one's smile is fake or genuine.

[Quett]

19/20

Missed #17

So can this help be more effective at feigning interest?

[Plethorix]

18/20

The smiles were harder to read than expected. In real life, there is context to back the smile which helps determine if it's a fake or not. As for purely visual cues, the eyes don't lie.

19/20

Missed #17

So can this help be more effective at feigning interest?

Afaik to fake a smile you have to actually feel the positive emotion, otherwise you come off as incongruent.

[sadf]

15/20

It looks fake when the smile falls off their face at the end.

[sunshinekisses]

You got 14 out of 20 correct.


Ugh. I got 6 genuine ones wrong. I thought they were fake. :X

[metallingus]

I got 16 out of 20 correct ... missed no. 1, 2 ,11, 15

[Cake]

wow i was bad. 6/20

[envirodude]

14/20. I'm happy with that result because I'm generally slow to pick up on body language.

[unconscioushate]

17/20
not bad for someone who barely spends anytime socializing with people

[IamMoose]

16/20

Even though I'm a strong T, I feel as though Im much better at reading peoples emotions than most are and pick up rather quickly on subtle quirks in others that show how they're really feeling. Maybe this is something I've picked up after years of just sitting and observing everyone around me 24/7.

[MrSoloDolo]

14 out of 20. I think it's a lot easier in context, if u know the people and how they act you could make the distinction a lot easier. I definitaley think i could fake a smile very well if i try, u just have to think of something funny, kinda like lying in your head.

[Vagrant]

13/20. Not bad, but close to guessing.

It looked like a lot of the genuine ones were laughing, rather than just smiling.

[Cake]

yeah i thought all the ones that were laughing were laughing and not smiling so that technicality = false smile bcuz its a laugh... w/e

[TrickyD]

17/20 not quite sure what it means though. I can spot a fake, woopie.

[cyd0nia]

14/20

I based it all on the eyes - if I could see crows feet around the eyes I checked 'genuine'.

[MortalWombat]

18/20

it's mostly what they do after they smile that gives it away.

[Othesemo]

15/20. I mostly looked at the eyes, as well as how quickly they returned to a bland expression.

[Iria]

16/20 My intuition/best guess at reading faces is a lot better than I expected. I thought I was going to get only a quarter of them correct at best.

[jadedangel]

i got 15/20 and looked to see how the smile fell i.e if it was gradual or abrupt. I am know for my fake smiles mostly in pictures but i never thought I would do so well in this test

[EnsconcedDeity]

You got 15 out of 20 correct

Hmmm not bad...

[Vermillion]

17/20 from looking at the eyes. Some of those people were fugly as hell.

[xSearchingSoul]

20 out of 20... The eyes are a big giveaway.

[Karneval]

I got 16 out of 20. I thought I did worse b/c I had no idea what indicates a fake smile :thinking:

[drake2]

14/20 Not bad for someone who rarely looks anyone in the eye without running away screaming.

[Chosen]

You got 13 out of 20 correct

I really thought I would do a lot worse.

[benr3600]

18/20. In addition to the eyes, it is somewhat easy to spot who is smiling and who isn't, because I know that forcing a smile on purpose seems like it takes a lot of effort. Also, some of those who are actually smiling have little added movements afterward that convey "ok it's time to get serious," vs. "I have to waste as little movement as possible in my transition from a fake smile to a straight face."

[JakeTheSage]

10/20

Hah, I'm bad at this. <_<

[merullo23]

18. Boo-ya.

[ShuTheDoor]

I got 16/20. Its all in the eyes. Ekman's research is very interesting.

Might that be due to the fact I worked around people for 12 hours and spent a majority of that time delivering fake smiles today?

[princessarwen]

17 out of 20

Eyes and head wiggles - agree - the fakes were able to get back to the dead-pan considerably faster than the genuine smilers.

They were certainly the most unique-looking individuals I've seen in a long time. Was that diplomatic? I think that was diplomatic...

[Aesthesis]

17/20

Kind of annoyed at two that I got wrong, looking at them again makes it seem so obvious...

[reivision]

19/20.

Give-aways: Creasing around the eyes, head shaking, not too quick to recompose the face into the "test-subject-dead-stare".

[Raskolnikov]

17/20

The eyes are always a dead giveaway. Also real smiles tend to be accompanied by a slight chuckle.

[MiaoPurrington]

11 out of 20. I am horrid at reading people. I much rather read books.

[NickW]

13/20.

I'd be curious to know how the test-makers determined if the smiles were genuine or not. I mean, how could they really know?

[WindWild]

14/20 yay..

[Bisclavret]

14 out of 20 here! It seems like my strategy of focusing on their eyes to decipher whether or not their smiles were genuine paid off to some extent. A very insightful exercise to say the least!

[Tomas1991]

18/20

[Jillian]

15 out of 20, i guess im bad at getting along with people. I know Im different.

[SamanthaLiberty]

12/20 I guess I should just stay with my corner. (;

[Olem]

18/20 - I'm starting to think I may spend too much time studying people, which is odd because other signs such as flirting for example I completely miss.

[vampyroteuthis]

16/20. Better than I expected. And here I thought I was needlessly distrustful.

[nowt]

15/20. 14/20. 16/20. 15/20.

You'd think my scores would improve, but no.

[Feste]

14 out of 20, the funny this is that my mind appeared to learn as the pictures went by, In the first 6 pictures I only got one right, and then I subconciously learned a pattern when I was really consistent except for one smile of that old guy

[Doomination]

17/20

[creativestrike]

You got 16 out of 20 correct

Yay :)

[Tsukimi]

7/20 last time I took it. I have better results if I close my eyes. :P

[Starry]

18/20

[Pheehelm]

12 out of 20. Slightly better than a coin!

[Alphemo]

Hmm. Interesting.
I also think I got psyched out by the assumption that some of them WILL be fake, or genuine, which causes second guessing (at least with me) I went by whether the smile seemed more voluntary or not.

That was a problem for me as well. I got 10/20, which seems to be rather low for the people on this thread. How many were each, again? I can't recall right off, which is irksome.

The time before and after the smiles also threw me off quite a bit. I though near all of them were fake, an observation that likely deserves its own strain of testing, lol.

[NoGrayArea01]

14/20

[cruiseingheart]

14/20 not bad

[Tactician]

You got 14 out of 20 correct

[tennloser]

15/20, interesting thing......all the ones I missed were Female, I wish they had this test 20 years ago.

[TweekR]

I scored a 19/20, interesting test to say the least.

[donkeybals]

11 of 20. I've considered myself a good reader of body language. Perhaps I'm wrong half the time. : /

[Seablue]

7/20, then 11/20 when I tried again. This is messing with my mind, I won't be able to see people smile without analyzing it for quite a while !

[maskling]

16 out of 20.

could have got 17, but my male ego made me decide that the asian chick was smiling at me cause she thinks i'm hot. really. that's how my brain works.

[8iii8]

Holy shit. I got 20/20. It's all in the eyes!

---------- Post added 06-07-2011 at 12:20 PM ----------

However i did read a book called The Definitive Guide to Body Language which has helped a lot.

---------- Post added 06-07-2011 at 12:22 PM ----------

16 out of 20.

could have got 17, but my male ego made me decide that the asian chick was smiling at me cause she thinks i'm hot. really. that's how my brain works.

Funny, I have a thing for Asian girls too. But I thought that girl could have tried harder, that was the most obvious fake one for me.

[Ascendant Edge]

15 out of 20. The genuine ones seemed less forced, like they actually laughed.

[Icristhus]

19 of 20. The one I missed was genuine, but I suspected falseness from the limited facial movement.

Looked for:
Wrinkling around the eyes
Facial muscles remaining slightly tensed before and after smile
Unconscious movements of head, shoulders, etc.
Fluidity of the smile's formation and dissipating, itself (genuine ones are very smooth in forming, rather jerky in leaving - fake are the opposite)
Movement of the eyes/eyelids (did they obviously squint to try and fake the natural crinkles? One woman did. Also, where did they look?)

Course, they could all be fake or genuine, taking the researchers' or subjects' word for it isn't really more than subjective proof. But I've always taken an interest in trying to appraise peoples' honesty in emotional displays (I refuse to fake smiles, myself, because I always thought they seemed so terribly obvious. Never mind ridiculous to perform.)

[Littlebear]

Hrm. I got 16 of 20 correct.
I did the same thing basically, looked to see if the smile reached the eyes mostly.

[lifesight]

You got 16 out of 20 correct

I am so impressed. ^_^

[BostonIan]

17 out of 20. I went by gut, and thought I was bombing the test.

(In retrospect, I protest the three that I got wrong. The smiles may have been "genuine" in that they were unrequested,
but that doesn't mean they weren't uncomfortable, up to something.)

[imperion]

18/20. I just looked at how big the smile was and how quickly the faces moved.

[chuu23]

15/20 hmm....

[DeepThought]

You got 16 out of 20 correct.

It was surprising that I got so many correct. I've never considered myself very good at such things. It was interesting to note that the four I got wrong were all fakes which I incorrectly identified as being genuine.

[fishphlem]

I got 15 and the 5 I got wrong were genuine when I said they were fake.

[IchibanDasai]

12/20 woo I suck

Man, those were some goofy looking people

I don't mean to sound mean...

...But I agree.
15/20.

I typed most as fake. Not because because the smiles looked fake, but some of the people looked pretty artificial, too.

[irini]

15/20

[Gerace]

14/20... I would look at their mouth after the smile, and their eyes during.

[Troll]

15/20. That's officially the creepiest online test I've taken.

[Persona]

16~

Definitely shows more in the eyes than anywhere else. The ones I got wrong were where it was right in the middle.

[Zhuinden]

18/20! Yay...
It's pretty easy to tell, from the eyes, but essentially the genuine ones were.. laughing. Sort of. You could either see how only their faces moved or the whole body, and most often the genuine ones were easy to spot because they made me smile! :D
Muhahah. I should pay more attention to metacommunication in reality. After I read a book on it, I suddenly got better at it.

[Lizander]

I got 16/20, is that considered high?

[Persona]

I got 16/20, is that considered high?
Pretty high yeah. Average is 12. But apparently Ns tend to score high or something.

[Izurin]

19/20...
The first smile/picture/video I didn't think of the play button. Though I tried afterwards and still got it wrong. Lol

[harunofuu]

13/20
But I can't guess whether he-the boy I like- has a fake or genuine smile :)

[babsa]

I looked at the eyes, and i also watched to see if their shoulders/chest rose/fell rapidly to indicate laughing

[intjistp]

12 of 20, but I started it too quickly

[Twilight]

16 out of 20

[EverybodyLies]

I got 15/20 that's not bad I guess. It's all in the eyes for me.

[Loneliness]

"You got 17 out of 20 correct"

Looks like INTJ's are quite good at this.

Personally, at first I was using eyes, but later i've noticed that those who fake smile, quit smiling in a shorter amount of time, while those who were really smiling took some time to stop it.

[Hewholistens]

wish i would have known about the previous button. I looked at the cheeks and eyes mostly 14/20

[Starlite]

Spot The Fake Smile
Results
You got 18 out of 20 correct

[Quito]

18/20

The glint of happiness in the eyes for the genuine ones was clearly present before and after the actual smile.

[Vardi]

16/20 , cool i thought i'd do bad

[rogozie01]

12 out of 20, pretty crap when you consider picking at random you should get an average of 10...

[Malkavia]

20/20

Of course I always smile. So I know them.

[Zionoxis]

18/20 I missed the third, and the fourth to last.