The eyes have it.

[andrewducker]

Interesting test here which tests your ability to tell people's emotions from looking at their eyes. It's used as one of a series of tests for Aspergers and the like.
[Poll #1642444]

My score was not what I expected.

Comments

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

The only thing is that it gives you time to consider, and I'd like to know what the responses would be like if you were only allowed say 1 second to see it.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

The only one I looked at for more than a glance, click, glance, click, was the one I got wrong. From that I would guess that people's answers would probably be better.

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

I got a couple of wrong ones from overthinking it, going back to look at the picture zoomed in and changing my mind, so I agree that perhaps this is one of those tests where forcing folks to go on instinct might improve responses for 'normal' folks. Whether the difference would be accentuated in the autistic would be more interesting to me than the current data the test provides seems to be...

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Theres something about higher order processing or something, but I can't remember exactly what it is, and it has to do with looking at faces.... unfort not my area of research.