Originally Posted by Jinn

I started taking this and then stopped about 3 or 4 in. What do they mean by 'genuine' and 'fake'? Do they mean the person is pretending to be happy? Do they mean they are pretending to smile? The categories are essentially useless. They almost all look awkward, in the sense that it's a staged smile - in that sense, they're all 'fake', because none of them was done candidly or as a result of actually being happy or something actually being funny. So in that sense, they're all fake, so I can't really see how I'm supposed to see anything but 20 fake smiles. Terrible 'study'.

If you're unable to look past the fact that they all look pressured and most are forcing themselves to laugh to even get a smile on their face for the brief few seconds of the video, then you're missing a vast majority of their emotion. They're ALL faking, some are just better at faking realistically. A few made it look like they weren't actually being forced to mug for the camera, so they're better actors.. but they're all still fake smiles.

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Completed it, and the end even admits:



.... see that part about 'automatic' ? None of these are 'automatic' because they're all staged in front of a camera. They're all fake!