What If You Could See Who Loves You? - Video

What if you could see who loves you? This what if animation gives you three days of hearts above everyone's head: who hates you, who doesn't care, and who loves you 100%.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow, and there's a heart above everyone's head. Black means they don't like you. Gray means you don't matter to them. Red means they like you. And 100% means they're in love with you.

But there's a catch: day one, you only see black hearts. Day two, gray. Day three, red. Then they vanish for a whole year. Your best friend turns out to be at −100%. And the person who loves you 100% is the last person you'd ever guess.

Along the way, the real science of how to tell if someone likes you: a real smile versus a polite one, pupils that widen, and why believing someone likes you can make it come true.

So... whose heart would you check first? Tell us in the comments.

Real facts in this video
• A real smile usually also tightens the muscles around the eyes (the "Duchenne smile"), a polite one often only moves the mouth: Ekman, Davidson & Friesen, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 58(2), 1990. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.58.2.342
• Social circles come in layers of about 5, about 15 and about 150 people: Zhou, Sornette, Hill & Dunbar, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272(1561), 2005. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2970
• People who were led to believe a partner liked them behaved more warmly, and the partner came to like them more: Curtis & Miller, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 51(2), 1986. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.51.2.284
• Mutual gaze between dogs and their owners raised oxytocin in both: Nagasawa et al., Science 348(6232), 2015. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261022
• About two thirds of cats tested (64% of kittens) were securely attached to their owners, close to the share seen in human infants: Vitale, Behnke & Udell, Current Biology 29(18), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.036
• Pupils tend to widen when we look at something or someone we find interesting or pleasant: Hess, Scientific American 212(4), 1965. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0465-46

Everyone in this video is fictional.

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