Spot the fake smiles

Josh_Singh · Oct 2006

Cool little test to do at lunch break.
see if you can spot the fake smiles from the real ones.
I got 16/20

CLICKY CLICKY

Neo_God · Oct 2006

19 out of 20. #11 had me.

It's all about the eyes.

Ninjas · Oct 2006

15/20 here

danr · Oct 2006

i wonder what they're doing to make "genuine" smiles? Telling them all a joke and asking them to smile regardless of what they think about it? Very odd ...

Zwebbie · Oct 2006

18/20, I got 1 and 4 wrong. So much for the medical people who claim I'm autistic and can't recognize emotions

Neo_God · Oct 2006

I dunno I think most people here should get good results. As character artists you sorta learn how to create emotion for your character. Because emotion is what brings a character into life rather than having him look like a generic nothing.

Mark Dygert · Oct 2006

20 was too long I lost interest around 12 and just clicked fake on the last 3 to see the results. 7,8 and 19 are the ones I missed.

(<-fake smile)

Mark Dygert · Oct 2006

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I dunno I think most people here should get good results. As character artists you sorta learn how to create emotion for your character.

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If by emotion you mean bald, brooding, with a face mask and an eye scar then I have to agree.

rooster · Oct 2006

18, I expected not to do great and didn't spend much time on each one. interesting stuff

Joshua Stubbles · Oct 2006

11/20

I'm an environment artist, damn it

noritsune · Oct 2006

in the same boat as rooster... I felt like I was doing poorly so cruised through and answered on instinct, and ended up with 17/20!

the brain sex ID survey is fun too, but a bit lengthy. and a bit more crackpot. I think all of us should be able to ace the "rotating shape" section of that one...

acc · Oct 2006

13/20. But I'm skeptical of how "genuine" many of those smiles were. Throw a camera right in front of someone's face and genuine tends to go right out the window. We're also lacking context as to why they are smiling, and it's weird that they all smile and then go right back to a straight face suddenly. In addition, the responses we're giving are also not genuine, because we're already focused on searching for fakes (regardless on what method we choose to use).

ScoobyDoofus · Oct 2006

18/20. I thought I did much worse. 4, 19 were my incorrect answers.

Ryno · Oct 2006

18. It's all in the eyes. I seemed to notice that many of the genuine ones seemed to blink, whereas the fakes did not. Anyone else notice that?

Joseph Silverman · Oct 2006

15/20

Luxury · Oct 2006

16/20. I basically based it all on how they transitioned from

back to

Josh_Singh · Oct 2006

It's in the eyes and the transition. The ones I got wrong were actually genuine, but I thought they were fake because they stopped smiling so suddenly.

Malekyth · Oct 2006

I got 15/20, which surprised me. I went back and looked at the ones I missed and realized I missed them because bigger movements were dragging in more of my attention than relevant ones. F'rinstance, one guy's eyes didn't even twitch, but his head swayed around a bit while he smiled and that seemed more real to me than the lack of eye crinkle seemed unreal. Amateur-league smile recognition from someone who should know better! Bah!

FunkaDelicDass · Oct 2006

18/20 - Yeah, I agree you guys, it's the eyes. And the sudden straight faces were a little weird...

Ozymandias · Oct 2006

19/20, i was so damn close, and it definitely is the eyes

notman · Oct 2006

15/20. I got better as it went on, but it was the eyes and their movement that I started paying most attention to. I think the genuine smiles were caused by a joke, and many of hte genuine people seemed to move like they were laughing.

Kevin Johnstone · Oct 2006

surprisingly i got twenty, maybe because i had a lot of liars as friends when I was younger. I would agree that this isn't a great test because of the forced nature of it.

I tend to watch the eyes and watch for the moment they are overwhelmed by their emotion to judge its veracity, i don't trust too smooth or abrupt a facial transition of any sort.

r.

McIlroy · Oct 2006

I also got 20 and noticed that every single genuine smile also had a shifting of the eyes . All the fakes stared directly into the camera .

Geezus · Oct 2006

17/20

It's all in the eyes, and usually the genuine smiles were backed by a chuckle-like movement.

Anyone else find this guy a bit creepy?:

animatr · Oct 2006

is that a dude? I cant really tell. If it is, he totally needs to lose the hair, or not pull it back like that...

Ruz · Oct 2006

I thought theyr were all fake , but thought I had better press the genuine one occasionally.
anyway i scored 12/20

CheapAlert · Oct 2006

Almost reminds me of this.

Gmanx · Oct 2006

I got 15. Some of them were already smiling at the start - which was odd.

notman · Oct 2006

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Anyone else find this guy a bit creepy?:

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That 'person' and a few others were really creepy. I thought that was a chick though... which I guess makes it worse... none of us can determine the gender

warby · Oct 2006

13/20 ... yeah they were all kinda faky because of the entire camera ... lights ... SMILE ... go situation

Mark Dygert · Oct 2006

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Anyone else find this guy a bit creepy?:

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Its the shaved hair down to the skin on the sides. It looked ok about 10 years ago if you always kept your hair in a ponytail. But when you let it down you look like a mutant with big temples.

Spot the fake smiles

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