Photo. A hard
working and nice porter at Kilimanjaro, Tanzania who always smiled.
© Travel Explorations.
This experiment is according to BBC designed to test
whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one.
To complete the test you have to answer 20 questions and it takes around 10 minutes. It
is based on research by Professor Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University
of California.
As BBC writes on its website: "Most people are surprisingly bad at
spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier
for people to get along if they don't always know what others are really
feeling. Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they
are actually slightly different".
What part of the face is most useful for discriminating between fake and real
smiles?
Click on the link for taking the "smile"-test on BBC`s website and for more
information: Smile
test
Stein Morten Lund, 20. September 2005
Additional information
BBC`s website: www.bbc.co.uk
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