Empathy: Spot the Fake Smile

I think that I've always been pretty decent at "reading" peoples emotions. Perhaps this comes from the fact that my step-father is a pschologist, and he spends alot of his time analyzing people. I could also come from the fact that my family doesnt really wear theor emotions on their sleeve. Instead we have to try to figure out whats going on by trying to look underneath facades, the find the realo problem. I have always been one of the people in my family that is both good at finding the emotions in others, and hiding my own. Becuase of this i found BBC's Spot the Fake Smile quite easy. After recieving the respectable 18 out of 20 correct guesses i went back to look at the ones i had missed.http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/movie4.shtmlthis video i had marked as a fake smile, but it is infact a genuine one.What threw me off in this video is that the womans eyes do not seem to hold any expression at all. I was judging the smiles on the peoples eyes, and since she didn't appear to have much emotion in her eyes i marked it as a fake smile.http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/movie17.shtmlThis was the other video i marked incorrectly. I had marked this smile as genuine when it is actually fake. To me the man in the video had "laughter in his eyes", but as it turned out this laughter was also fake.