Smiling and T/F

[1981slater]

Logicals smile with their mouth closed. Ethicals show their teeth

Is this just bullshit/a coincidence or it works?

[Marie84]

Meh, I never smile with my teeth unless I'm laughing, I think it looks obnoxious

[Creepy-bg]

I never show my teeth.

[Krig the Viking]

Half the time when I think I'm smiling, or at least looking vaguely happy, people ask me why I'm frowning or why I look so serious. It's annoying.

I do sometimes show teeth when I smile, but only when it's a genuine, unconscious grin caused by something funny or awesome happening, not a deliberate "smile for the camera" smile.

[1981slater]

I see we are like-minded

[squark]

I'm the queen of big cheesy grins, smirks and half-smiles. I'm generally a happy person, and it shows. Shows when I'm angry too. In my observations, it's often the introverted ethicals that show the least exuberance in their smiles, obviously with exceptions.

[Jonathan]

Logicals smile with their mouth closed. Ethicals show their teeth

I don't think it's necessarily true, although ethical types are probably more aware of being happy or sad, so they might show it more. Avoiding a full smile may occur because one really isn't that happy overall, or because one's too worried about showing wrinkles. (Some people think they look better when they don't smile, which often is at odds with what people around them think.)

Curiously, in the Filatova pictures, all the extraverts smile, and all the introverts frown, except for the SEIs who sort of smirk.

I do think smiling vs. not smiling may cause people to mistype a person. This is also similar to other superficial traits; for example, if someone has long, soft hair and is smiling, people are more likely to think that person's an ethical type, whereas if the person has short, angular hair and wears glasses and doesn't smile, people will more likely think the person is a logical type.

[Wrong Way Ticket]

My smiles are always: =D

[Warlord]

I don't know myself what I look like when I smile, I don't pay any attention to it.

There was a thread about this earlier, and I was told it's mostly lips closed.

[redbaron]

I almost always have my lips closed when smiling unless I'm SUPER happy for some reason. My SEI dad also smiles with his mouth shut and so does my IEI brother.

[Slacker]

I smile with my teeth, but I used to have a discoloration on one tooth, and until that was fixed I smiled with my mouth closed.

My husband doesn't smile much, but he generally would keep his mouth closed I think. Unless he was being obnoxious or something and then he'd make a fake cheesy grin.

My daughter shows her very widely spaced buck teeth, and every time I find myself wondering how much braces cost these days.

Oh yeah, and my other daughter doesn't have teeth yet, and doesn't smile much. No data available.