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Originally Posted by Hektore
You don't know that it's forced and I'm not sure why you're assuming it is. For certain it is on the 'fake' smiles, but is it really that hard to get video of someone actually smiling in a lab setting? You don't have to be that creative to come up with a way to accomplish that task.
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I think so. "Real" smiles require candid behavior. I think you could capture it if it were a bunch of people sitting around a table telling jokes and you had a hidden camera watching them. But from the positioning of the people and the cameras in this its pretty apparent that they put a camera right in their face and did something "funny" or just asked them to smile. It's still not "candid", even if it was just a slideshow of lolcats and the only smiled when they saw one that truly amused them. They're still aware of the pretense of a keen observer. Even if it's not a camera, someone sitting 5 feet from you watching your facial expression intensely changes how you manifest your feelings.
People change dramatically when they *know* a camera is around, and there's a huge difference between candid photos and staged photos.