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Browsing through Wikipedia sort of day.
Ran across this number in the "smile" entry - can you pick the real smiles?
I got 18 out of 20, which I didn't think was too bad (though maybe not good enough for someone who wants to study face perception - I wonder how I'd do with monkeys...).
It's an interesting test - they seem to vary the temperment and expression independently (a guy with smile lines around his eyes might give a false smile, for example). I found myself smiling reflexively at many of the images, though I didn't actually take note of whether I was responding more to fake or real smiles (that would have been too much forethought).
The little summary at the end made a good point, that being bad at picking real smiles probably facilitates social interactions (if you don't know they're putting on a show, you'll think they're really smiling at you and thus respond more positively).
Anyway, I have a new favorite 19th century French scientist (sorry Broca) - Guillaume Duchenne.
Neurologist, facial physiologist, medical photographer, the guy on the left.
(And this is not even the most disturbing of his images...)
Ran across this number in the "smile" entry - can you pick the real smiles?
I got 18 out of 20, which I didn't think was too bad (though maybe not good enough for someone who wants to study face perception - I wonder how I'd do with monkeys...).
It's an interesting test - they seem to vary the temperment and expression independently (a guy with smile lines around his eyes might give a false smile, for example). I found myself smiling reflexively at many of the images, though I didn't actually take note of whether I was responding more to fake or real smiles (that would have been too much forethought).
The little summary at the end made a good point, that being bad at picking real smiles probably facilitates social interactions (if you don't know they're putting on a show, you'll think they're really smiling at you and thus respond more positively).
Anyway, I have a new favorite 19th century French scientist (sorry Broca) - Guillaume Duchenne.
Neurologist, facial physiologist, medical photographer, the guy on the left.
(And this is not even the most disturbing of his images...)