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Can you tell which smile is the “real” smile and which one is “fake”? If you can’t, don’t de-spair. Actually, they’re both real smiles!<br />

If you want people to like you, your smiles should be genuine. <strong>The</strong> telltale signs of a genuine smile are the<br />

upturned corners of the mouth and upward movement of the cheeks accompanied by wrinkling around the<br />

edges of the eyes. As opposed to sincere smiles, forced smiles tend to be lopsided. For right-handed people a<br />

forced smile tends to be stronger on the right side of the face, and for left-handed people, it tends to be<br />

stronger on the left. Fake smiles also lack synchrony. <strong>The</strong>y begin later than real smiles and taper off in an<br />

irregular manner. With a real smile, the cheeks are raised, bagged skin forms under the eyes, crow’s feet<br />

appear around the corners of the eyes, and with some individuals, the nose may dip downward. In a fake<br />

smile, you can see that the corners of the mouth are not upturned and the cheeks are not uplifted to cause<br />

wrinkling around the eyes, the telltale sign of a genuine smile. Wrinkling around the eyes is often difficult<br />

to see in young people, whose skin is more elastic than older folks. Nonetheless, our brains can spot the<br />

difference between a real smile and a fake smile.

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