Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Faked Smile or Contempt?

Reese Witherspoon Shakes The Blues For Christmas Cheer!

Whenever we show an expression and it is not 'even' on both sides of the face, it is a faked expression.

Many might take this as contempt, but with us being able to see her teeth it could also be a practiced social smile that she is attempting to fake. Her face shows little or no other negativity... whereas when we normally see contempt we see anything from neutral or negative faces in conjunction with the unilateral lifting of one side of the mouth.

This is a classic case of needing to see video, compared to a picture. We'd need to see expressions before and after this one to see if we could see clusters of gestures and facial expressions that would make things clearer to us.

On aside, look at her free hand and what finger is backed away from the others...

here is another snap from the same day, once again it is hard to tell...

Reese Witherspoon Shakes The Blues For Christmas Cheer!
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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

How to spot fake or genuine smile
and free!!
Happy christmas!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/index.shtml

see the must on paul ekman site articles (+50) on
fake smile etc..