Spot The Fake Smile

02:00 PM PT, May 12 2008

This experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one
It has 20 questions and should take you 10 minutes
It is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University of California
Each video clip will take approximately 15 seconds to load on a 56k modem and you can only play each smile once

I thought this would be relatively easy. I was wrong, I got 13 out of 20 correct. It's for science so while you may find yourself feeling like you just wasted 3 minutes of your life, it's for a good cause. Who doesn't love science? ;) [ Play Spot The Fake Smile ]

May 12, 2008 in Games | Permalink

Wow, I got 18 out of 20, which is really surprising because I think I am horrible at reading body language. Maybe all the time I spend playing poker and trying to read people's expressions has subconsciously paid off for me.

Posted by: Damin | May 12, 2008 at 04:51 PM

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Christie St. Martin

Christie St. Martin was born in Bermuda and educated at two Canadian universities that would prefer not to be mentioned here until she supplies them with healthy building endowments. An uber-geek and proud of it, she established herself as an Internet presence with All Things Christie, a blog that managed, with its quirky and unabashedly self-indulgent links to and commentary on whatever struck her fancy or her ire, to attract small legions of readers, fans and would-be stalkers. Her interests were as they are: myriad and eclectic, though certainly given to a particular fondness for the tech-y, the game-y and the kitschy. She is her own organizing principle, a kind of mad surfer on the crests of cultural lunacy, alternately acerbic, ecstatic and unintentionally insightful. She has since blogged for VH1's "Best Week Ever" and Exhausticated.com, providing her usual melange of cheek, snark and occasional observation. Christie also contributes to LAT's Hero Complex blog.

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