Is that salesperson's smile genuine?

[uumode]

So.. can you tell if people are faking smiles?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/index.shtml

 

[DITTRICH]

The genuine smile is the one they do after you've driven off in the motor they've just sold to you.
Rgds
Les

 

[jimti]

Wow, I got 20 out of 20 :bannana:

 

[Charles Morgan]

I was hopeless at 11, but then I guessed they were all fake bar one...

The smile of a salesman always reminds me of the second verse of the delightful Lewis Carroll nonsense poem about the Nile Crocodile.

How Doth The Little Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!

 

[moonloops]

16 out of 20

 

[renault12ts]

19 out of twenty:

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Mind - Flavour and Personality test

 

[Londonscottish]

16 out of 20

 

[Spinal]

Interesting how they define a genuine smile vs a fake smile... It's not based on events around the subject, but on a computer-based analysis of the muscles used in the face!

 

[PhiliusM]

He was really smiley after he had made the sale.

 

[ringway]

9/20.

The woman in image 13, gave me the creeps.

 

[jimti]

The woman in image 13, gave me the creeps.

That was a woman?

 

[MOCAŠ]

Number 18 was pretty creepy too!

I managed to get 15 out of 20, but more through luck than judgement I suspect.

I think Shakespeare may have had a few dealings with salesmen, too, providing him with the inspiration for the line from Hamlet: "One may smile, and smile, and be a villain".