Sunday, May 22, 2016

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3567: Donald Trump's Most Common Social Smile (Pseudo-Smile) Variant - Body Language (PHOTO)
























This image is an example of Donald Trump's most common variation of a Social Smile. It is NOT a sincere one. Mr. Trump displays a sincere smile of joy-happiness (Duchenne Smile) on exceedingly rare occasions. To thin-slice this particular expression (which Trump projects in place of a smile) a bit further - the primary emotion being felt (and thus transmitted) here is Disgust.

Some people may say, "That's just the way Trump smiles." Wrong. This is a ruse - and anything but sincere. It's also important to note that there are many - and more palatable types of social smiles.

What is your "go-to" social smile? Can you smile sincerely "on-demand"? Are you able to readily differentiate sincere smiles from the many variants of insincere smiles?


See also:

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3565: Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Archie Williams and Body Language

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3545: Eric Trump's Reaction to President Obama's Comments at the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3258: Hillary Clinton speaks out on "inaccuracies" of private email controversy

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3516: Hillary Clinton, Finger Pointing, Fossil Fuels, Bernie Sanders and Lying

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3421: Jennifer Lawrence, Eddie Redmayne and Emotional Comfort

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3388: Donald Trump, Duplicitous Expressions and "politely" Removing a Protester

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3356: Anna Faris and Chris Pratt are Dressing their Son Up as a Dinosaur for Halloween

Nonverbal Communication Analysis No. 3324: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin Shake Hands at UN Luncheon

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