Spotting a Fake Laugh (Slo-Mo Experiment)

can you tell when someone's laugh is. fake let's talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning I came across. some. research that is fascinating UCLA study. to determine love UCLA if people can. tell the difference between real laughs. and fake laughs and it it's fascinating. St I want tell you about it but I will.

also say that inspired by that study we. have devised our own experiment which. should be a lot of fun oh yeah okay so. here's the thing they recorded 18. legitimate laughs and then 18 fake. laughs they showed it to three different. people 36 total first people they played. the laughs just normal speed real and. fake 37% of the fake laughs fooled. people then the minority but then the. second a second group of people they. show these laughs sped up.

now the fake laughs they it fooled 50%. of the people harder to tell when it SP. up that's why I laugh fast when I'm. faking third group they slow the laughs. down then they ask a different question. kind of interesting they ask was this. slow down laugh made by an animal like a. non-human animal or a human animal okay. and here's what they found out they. found out animals laugh if yes and if it. if it was but this is just a perception. these were all human laughs but if the. laugh was real if it was a real human.

laugh the person couldn't tell if it was. an animal or human but if it was a fake. human laugh they could definitely tell. that it was a human fascinating yeah and. this is love UCLA this is basically. because uh a real laugh comes from an. emotional vocal system that's shared. with primates and other laughing. non-human animals but humans. distinctively are the only ones that can. fake laugh because they use the human. speech system to mimic a laugh you know. it's acting you sound like a professor.

and it's not as breathy and things like. that you should teach class so anyway. you're welcome for that this is welc. class is in session oh this is this is. actually an experiment that's about to. happen oh what what we're going to do is. we're going to go into our laugh lab we. have each. already filmed ourselves laughing and. now I wonder what that was for now we. are going to conduct an experiment to. see if we can tell if the other person's. laugh is real or fake to the laugh.

welcome to the laugh lab it's it's the. same place we were just a second ago. except now we're looking at videos on. our computers yeah okay um as I said we. have filmed ourselves laughing to um to. some internet videos we thought were. funny and also fake laughing I've picked. my laughs that I'm going to present to. you you're going to pick you pick the. ones you're going to present to me I get. to tell you if it's fake or real and the. thing is if the one thing you think. about if my laugh sounds like a.

non-human animal then you know it's real. but you also know me so there's lots of. criteria that are coming into play here. to decide if I'm giving you a fake laugh. or I'm trying to tell you if it's fake. or real and I'm using the fact that if. it sounds like an animal it's real as a. to guide me in this okay I'm game but. you're not determining if I'm an animal. right because I already know that okay. to be the case here's the first one all. of these are slowed. down.

fake fake yeah why you think it's fake. I've known you since you're six years. old man but you've never seen me slow. down dude man you can't fool me. animal see the end there you see how it. just kind of dropped okay let's let's. see how good you are that's good all. right you've known me for quite some. time too. linkster.

not much to go on there tricky I'm. tricky. um fake I could see the I could see the. you were trying in your eyes. there. oh yeah you never in real life start a. no I did cuz I was like I was watching. something that made me laugh okay all. right you're all right here's second one.

you ready. [Applause]. uh-huh oh you're better on the second. one I also saw it I just gave you I was. I was going to say real you're GNA say. real anyway yeah yeah I seriously. straight up i s you revealed your answer. but I was totally going to say real cuz. I cuz I could see I was watching your. eyes in the way it was moving to follow. something to laugh at specifically well. that's that's not you're supposed to.

look at this I'm just using my brain man. all right here it. [Music]. is that's quite a quite a breath you got. going there it's like a. weave okay all right so now let me see. if I can tie it. up.

oh that I whether it was real or fake it. was definitely gross I would say real. that's real there was like your eyes. were. watering and it sounded like an. [Laughter]. animal you jumped yeah wow I said and. you said wow you said wow cuz you. actually laughed all right let's keep. this train rolling my number three.

here fake man well okay I'll give you. I'll I'll give you a little bit more of. this one before you totally. [Applause]. [Laughter]. decide real real real fake fake I fake. laugh at you all the time man no that.

was real right. real real all of these are real let's. played the game man all right here. here's here's the real version you'll. see all right we about to this one. brother the lip curl totally fake you're. trying o the lip lick little tongue.

action yours get grosser and grosser. yeah all right so that's fake. really see I know we know each other so. well all right so we're we're getting. all these right right dang link final. round so this is to be perfect yeah okay. all. right oh dang man that was fake too was.

that was also fake I'm going give you a. little bit more of this. one what in the world. man it was fake man it was really long. too really committed to that I did I.

did all. [Music]. right you really give it away there at. the end all right okay yeah I did so. I'm here you go last. one.

went back for more oh man I definitely. thought it was real until you went back. for more and now I'm on the fence. real we can't we're not animals we're. not animal who can laugh I don't know. but we just know each other really well. I invite you to conduct this experiment. on yourself because it's kind of. embarrassing what do you think about my. lick lip H the embarrassing Thanks for. liking and commenting on this episode. and for learning something you can.

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