http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/20/can-you-spot-a-fake-smile/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/20/can-you-spot-a-fake-smile/#comment-15813 TJ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:49:46 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2066#comment-15813 Cool! I got 18 out of 20. The trick, so I've been told, is to watch the eyes. Fake smiles are mouth only, real smiles include a scrunching up of the outside corners of the eyes. Apparently it works, since it was almost the only thing I looked at. It can be a bit hard to tell on a few people--some have creases in that area and it's hard to tell if they deepen or not, and one guy looks like he's learned to fake with his eyes, too. (Which by the way isn't that hard, just concentrate on tightening up your eyes when you smile--funny thing, though, it turns a fake smile into a real smile for me when I do it.) Cool! I got 18 out of 20. The trick, so I’ve been told, is to watch the eyes. Fake smiles are mouth only, real smiles include a scrunching up of the outside corners of the eyes. Apparently it works, since it was almost the only thing I looked at. It can be a bit hard to tell on a few people–some have creases in that area and it’s hard to tell if they deepen or not, and one guy looks like he’s learned to fake with his eyes, too. (Which by the way isn’t that hard, just concentrate on tightening up your eyes when you smile–funny thing, though, it turns a fake smile into a real smile for me when I do it.)

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