Vanessa Van Edwards explains how to spot fake smiles that hide disgust. When someone raises their upper lip or wrinkles their nose while smiling, they're likely feeling disgust or anger underneath. Nose wrinkles are the tell that a smile isn't genuine.
People will do disgust as a smile. Don't ruin a smile with disgust. It looks like this, right? And they think that just to show their teeth, they should raise their upper lip. So if someone's fake smiling and they don't know how to fake smile, well, they think the more teeth, the better. So they just. I found two really fun ones here. So here's pink. You can see partially anger, partial disgust, kind of scrunch. You see those nose wrinkles here? And here's a closed mouth smile. But you can still see activation in this part of the face where the nose is still going up, Right? So we can even go up into our nose. We do not smile with our nose. So you know that if you see nose activation on a smile, something else is going on there.
