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Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot?

My score: 18/20
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

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[nq:1]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling.

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  • [nq:1]Here's a fun test.
  • The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test.
  • 20 pictures of people smiling.
  • How many can you spot?
  • uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles /[/nq] I got 14/20.
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[nq:1]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
I got 14/20. I might have gotten a few more if they had defined their terms a bit better.
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Donna Richoux wrote on 06 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the ... smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
[nq:1]I got 14/20. I might have gotten a few more if they had defined their terms a b
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CyberCypher typed thus:
[nq:1]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
17/20 for me, perhaps surprisingly.

David
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[nq:1]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
You no longer need the www for bbc.co.uk websites. The links they give on their programme
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On 6 Jun 2004 08:48:21 GMT, CyberCypher
[nq:1]Donna Richoux wrote on 06 Jun 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]I got 14/20. I might have gotten a few more ... But the experimenters appear to have counted them as "fake."[/nq]
[nq:1]I agree that they didn't define their terms well at all, but I took the distinction to mean one between ... fake smile is the 12th face, the young Asian-looking woman whose no
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[nq:2]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the ... smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
[nq:1]You no longer need the www for bbc.co.uk websites. The links they give on their programmes now mostly omit it. ... many
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Matti Lamprhey wrote on 06 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the ... smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
[nq:1]You no longer need the www for bbc.co.uk websites. The links they give on thei
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Django Cat wrote on 06 Jun 2004:
[nq:2]Donna Richoux wrote on 06 Jun 2004: I agree that ... whose non-smiling face was in a kind of constant pre-smile.[/nq]
[nq:1]I've never noticed that before, but you're right, I see it in my Chinese female students. But then I thought the Asian girl was genuine.[/nq]
I am on my second Asian wife (first one from Shanghai and second one from Kaohsiung
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[nq:1]I don't think the test was easy, and I'm sure I made some lucky guesses. Then again, after living in ... feelings from their facial expressions than I ever was before. It's necessary in cultures that do not value emotional openness.[/nq]
Which do? I'm so used to living in societies that prefer faked emotion to the real thing that it seldom occurs to me to wonder if it's any different any
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[nq:1]Here's a fun test. The BBC has a "Spot the fake smile" test. 20 pictures of people smiling. How many can you spot? My score: 18/20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/[/nq]
I did rather poorly 12 right out of 20. Half of the eight wrong were for guessing "genuin
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