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In order for a smile to be genuine, four things must be present: one, the eyes should crinkle (with ―crow’s feet‖); two, the apples of the cheeks should be raised; three, the teeth must be showing; and four, the lips should be parted and slanting upward. Unless you see all four of these signs, the person’s smile is either phony, tense, or forced. She is trying to mask her true feelings.

Photo 8-15: Lance Armstrong’s fake, tight-lipped grin as he is interviewed by a journalist at a press conference. Photo credit: Jennifer Lorenzini/Splash News.

Here we see Lance Armstrong being interviewed by a journalist and smiling a tense, fake smile as he is asked about the doping allegations against him. You could see a similar expression in a photo of him at the 2010 Tour de France ceremonies in France. His name has just been called to receive the award. He knows he is supposed to be happy, so he smiles, but the smile is not a genuine one. The apples of his cheeks are not raised, his eyes don’t crinkle, and his lips are tightly pursed in a horizontal position, instead of slanting upward with his lips open and teeth showing. This very tense and fake smile likely reflected his true inner feelings—namely, that he could not be truly happy or elated about his achievements when he knew that he cheated, not only in that particular race, but in all of his previous Tour de France races.

If you watch a rerun of the Nightline interview of John Edwards, it is laden with examples of his fake smile, in which his mouth is smiling but his eyes and cheeks are not. This phony smile is

particularly evident as he denies paternity of Rielle Hunter’s child and asserts, ―I’ll be happy to prove the child is not mine.‖ He knew he was lying when he uttered those words because he knew all along that he was indeed the child’s biological father.

Edwards even put this fake smile to work in his mug shot, as he attempted to give the impression that he was happy and all was well. The reality, of course, was that he was not at all happy about being arrested and forced to have his mug shot taken. No one could be genuinely happy about that! His eyes are not smiling, and there is marked tension in his lower jaw as his teeth appear to be clenched

together, which does not happen in a genuine smile. In addition, the apples of his cheeks seem to droop downward as opposed to tilting upward, as they would in a real smile.

Photo 8-16: John Edwards’s fake smile in his mug shot after being arrested for campaign finance fraud. Photo credit: Splash News.

In general, when someone is genuinely smiling, he or she will look directly at you, not down or to the side. Otherwise the smile is likely not genuine. During his Nightline interview, when Edwards lied about the paternity of his mistress’s child, he often looked down as he grinned tensely. Even before the interview began, Edwards exhibited the same phony, tense smile that he put on for his mug shot. He continued with this fake display of happiness as he endeavored to flatter and ingratiate himself to the host of the show. While Edwards expressed how pleased he was to do the interview in order to be able to tell ―his side of the story,‖ his facial language indicated that he was in no way pleased. No one displaying a tense half-smile is pleased to do anything. These were all clear indications of deception.

Bernard Madoff was another liar who was adept at wielding a fake smile. Note his tight-lipped smile and unfriendly eyes as he left a court proceeding in 2008. This may have been an indication of nerves on his part. He wanted to appear cordial and friendly in an atmosphere where the press was shouting hostile words at him and the photographers were pushing him. In fact, one photographer actually came out from behind his camera to shove Madoff, to which Madoff responded angrily and admonished the photographer that there would be no pushing.

Photo 8-17: Bernard Madoff’s phony smile so angered a photographer that he pushed Madoff. Photo credit: Splash News.

There was absolutely no reason why disgraced Penn State coach and convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky would be smiling after he was found guilty on so many counts of child molestation. There was also no reason for him to be smiling after he was denied a new trial during a post-sentence motion. And there was definitely no reason for him to smile when he found out that he will be spending the rest of his life in prison (and likely fighting for his life when other prisoners inevitably attack him for being a pedophile).

If you look closely at his smile, however, it is a phony one. His teeth are clenched together and his eyes and the apple of his cheeks droop downward. That means that even though he was trying to smile on the outside, there was turmoil on the inside. Sandusky used his smile to not only charm his

colleagues at Penn State, but also the players, the backers of his charity, the media, and even the children he victimized. Perhaps he was smiling in a subconscious effort to charm those who watched him walk by, so that they wouldn’t think of him as the monster he really was.