Say cheese . . . and smile

[Dayvo]

Try this test to see if you can spot a fake smile:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

I had 15/20 correct.

 

[willhub]

I got 15/20 correct too

 

[johnnyh]

only 13, but some odd balls in that bunch!

 

[dibdab]

I got 16/20

 

[Dayvo]

only 13, but some odd balls in that bunch!

Definitely! They all looked like inbreds!

 

[Mr Pig]

14/20

It was harder than I thought. When you go back and look at the videos again you can see where you got it wrong, but some are very hard. The thing that threw me at first was that they have obviously all been told to end the smile abruptly, which makes them all look unnatural. I doubt if anyone could spot fake smiles 100% of the time.

 

[Keith Oates]

12/20 - I think that the eight I got wrong were telling lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Shaun]

15/20 for me too! (<- now is that a fake smile, or a genuine one?)

 

[buggi]

16. mostly you can tell coz when you truly smile its hard to go back to a straight face after.

 

[Radius]

19

 

[Mr Pig]

19

No way!

 

[Radius]

Yes way!

 

[Mr Pig]

Yes way!

How many times did you do it? ;0)

 

[Radius]

Once damn you, once! I didn't find it particularly hard, didn't think about answering for more than a split second. Overthinking can be harmful to intuition that may well be right...

 

[rich p]

17/20.

No. 13 was a weirdo