Spot the Fake Smile. Test how good at reading body language.

crimp · 2011-03-26T07:50:39+00:00

18 of 20. all in the eyes

ArtigianoDelCorpo · 2011-03-26T15:15:57+00:00

10/20. Some of them look like serial rapists. Maybe that's why I mistook their smiles as fake.

kLinus · 2011-03-26T15:55:02+00:00

Ok wait. These are obviously all actors and they are switching back to frowns at the end of each video. So all of them are fake...

ArtigianoDelCorpo · 2011-03-26T06:46:05+00:00

17 out of 20. Not bad! Woohoo. Beat that internets!

ADHDgamer · 2011-03-26T16:43:51+00:00

This test is fucked. They tell you that the video is only going to play once, but actually the first time it loads you only see about 2 seconds of the whole video. You have to hit play to watch the whole thing. That kinda error screws with the overall integrity of the data trying to be collected.

I'm a stand up comic. Not the best, but still I've done it enough to understand smiles. Were it not for the aforementioned confusion, I would have gotten all 20, but I didn't realize what was going on until the third clip, so I only got 18 right. To me, the difference between a genuine and a fake is the time it takes for a persons face to go back to "normal". The longer it takes, the more genuine the smile was.

Also number 13 was not a human. I don't know what that thing was; it looked like one of the Chess monsters in Dark Crystal.

uglynerd · 2011-03-26T07:12:32+00:00

20 out of 20.

Proof (spoiler): http://imgur.com/yegej

goocy · 2011-03-26T08:48:37+00:00

No love for iPhones; relies on Flash video.

on_the_dl · 2011-03-26T10:21:05+00:00

16/20, apparently everyone else is doing better than me!

I was mostly calling the genuine smiles fake.

AveofSpades · 2011-03-26T14:54:46+00:00

19 of 20. All about the eyes.

marcovirtual · 2011-03-26T15:07:16+00:00

TIL I can't read people smiles. I only got 11 :(

ymrhawk · 2011-03-26T16:43:28+00:00

5 out of 20, woohoo!! I knew the eyes were the secret.

2011-03-26T19:13:01+00:00

shouldn't they all be fake, because they're inducing the smile for the camera? some are really easy to tell because the person immediately puts a frown back on... they should have used still images for this.

MaYAL_terEgo · 2011-03-26T15:30:48+00:00

19/20. :)

jirdaar · 2011-03-26T09:25:34+00:00

16/20 and also i thought that i am bad in this :)

DRUMSKIDOO · 2011-03-26T13:56:31+00:00

" The Secret is in their eyes "

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/

One of the best films i have seen.

ThirdEy3 · 2011-03-26T14:07:46+00:00

i was more focused on their eyebrows than eyes managed to get 16....okay i guess

acartoontiger · 2011-03-26T15:28:41+00:00

I got all the women correct but about half the guys wrong. I wonder if this is telling of my preconceptions about guys, I called a lot of their genuine smiles fake. However, since we are on Seddit and I am straight, I am okay with my results.

Geaux · 2011-03-26T15:41:44+00:00

16/20, only because two of the videos didnt play.

zabonotiropitas · 2011-03-26T16:03:25+00:00

Don't wanna sound like bragging but got 18/20 there.Mostly by combining mouth + eyes.

2011-03-26T17:31:00+00:00

16/20 yay

07SS · 2011-03-26T18:35:03+00:00

16 out of 20. Usually I looked in their eyes and also if they went back to super serious after smiling... If you laugh at something, you have a cheery look on after for a little bit.

I don't know if they switch them up, but I got 4, 5, 10, and 16 wrong

OhTheHumanatee · 2011-03-26T19:03:48+00:00

I felt like every one was fake. (no trust in humanity)

MrFrillows · 2011-03-26T20:20:00+00:00

18/20 - I have been reading Paul Ekman's "Emotions Revealed" and it made this exercise easy.

amins23 · 2011-03-26T21:18:32+00:00

17/20 - focused on eyes and the movement of eyebrows.

omdoks · 2011-03-26T21:41:14+00:00

17/20

oddly enough i only got the first 3 wrong.

MrRisky · 2011-03-27T00:14:42+00:00

19 of 20. Eye creases are key. Asian girl tricked me.

raptorraptor · 2011-03-27T01:06:50+00:00

19 out of 20. I fucking amazed at myself for doing that well.

skateitsgreat · 2011-03-27T02:46:57+00:00

16/20 Pretty good for a person whom others define as socially awkward. Shows what they know.

Title	Spot the Fake Smile. Test how good at reading body language.
Author	etherspirit
Upvotes	48
Comments	50
Date	March 26, 2011 6:29 AM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/seduction
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/gbt95/spot_the_fake_smile_test_how_good_at_reading_body/
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