What’s in a smile?

My friend Tom Chappell is a fan of psychological tests. Especially if they have anything to do with face blindness.

Well, my turn! I, like most of my co-workers in the computers field, can have moments of awkwardness that a “well-adjusted” person would allegedly never experience. Today, for instance, Tom and I were both anguished by the fact that we couldn’t tell whether a woman we saw at a restaurant was Georgia, who we happen to have known for years!

Ironically, I seem to be doing better at reading people than actually identifying them.

Let’s play: the BBC web site offers an online test that will help you get a better idea of how perceptive you *really* are.
It is at www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

Feel free to post or email me your score!