Smiles Study Examples

A Smiles Study was a project to determine the general emotional intelligence of different age groups. Three volunteers in three different age groups, the children, teenagers, and adults, were asked which out of a pair of pictures depicting people smiling were real. This was meant to be a guidance to the adolescent audience as a place to understand what age group may be supportive and reliable in seeking emotional help. Being a teenager and experiencing the emotional turmoil that goes along with significant relationships, responsibilities, and overall change, it is important to know who to confide in, and knowing what age group was averagely the most emotionally intelligent would help in that decision.
It was predicted that of the three age groups, the oldest age group (adults) would be the best a recognizing real versus fake smiles. Following simple logic, with more practice and experience should come the betterment …show more content…
The child age group responded to the female faces in particular, and the adult group did not guess the masculine smiles correctly at all. The teenage age group did the best. Averaging on a 2.34 out of 3 correct guess rate, they were just above the children with a 2 out of 3 average. In future studies, a more diverse testing sample would be preferred. All subjects were acquaintances of the tester and consisted of many females, many caucasian people, and all who knew what the study was testing. Interesting research may include testing different genders, ethnicities, and age groups with similarly grouped photographed people, and the overall effect on similar social groups with reading emotions. This was an immensly interesting project, and one that surprised me as a tester. I was certain that adults would perform better than any in the test, but I was proven wrong. This would be great to test again, and I look forward to studying emotional intelligence in other