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Reading the Duchenne Smile

Spotting fake joy in old albums

Reading the Duchenne Smile
When scanning family albums, you can easily tell who was truly happy and who was faking it. A genuine smile, called a Duchenne smile, involuntarily contracts the muscles around the eyes to form crow's feet. If the eyes aren't wrinkling in that favorite family photo, the subject was just politely posing.
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