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

[andrewducker]

Some of them I got by trying out each of the emotions in turn and seeing where my eyes ended up. I'm not sure if that counts as cheating...

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I did MUCH better than I expected. With the ones I fluffed I tended to think that none of the labels applied, that *they* had got it slightly wrong.

I'd have been concerned mind you, if I'd got full marks....

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow. I got 31 as well. I honestly did not expect to do at all well.

It felt strange. I started off basically guessing -- except that almost all of my guesses happened to be right.

A third of the way through, I thought to try to imagine the whole face making the expressions described and see which seemed right, and that seemed to help a lot. I probably mimed making that face, but not deliberately. I started to consciously notice the position of the face and position of the eyes, which correlated with what sounded vaguely plausible for those emotions.

[naath.livejournal.com]

12

Which is only slightly better than chance.

Perhaps if I'd tried the "trying out the emotions" trick I would have done better but I think that's cheating because it relies on having a short-list to pick from.

I'm not diagnosed with Aspergers or Autism.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

my score was also not what I expected: I don't tend to think of myself as good at reading emotion.

a couple of observations:
- I'm sure I got the same picture twice, illustrating 'fantasising' and 'thoughtful'
- I based my judgements on eye direction -- looking away, looking toward -- which makes me gloomy as eye contact is something I sometimes find difficult, and this test implies that I am giving off the wrong signals. (Not that this is a surprise, I do that a lot.)

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

For I AM Tim Roth.

You may think I got three wrong. No, they got three wrong.

[andrewducker]

I know they reused the same person with different expressions a few times. I didn't see the same expression twice, but I wasn't paying _that_ much attention.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I think they reused pictures too.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

:-) sociopaths would score very highly, I understand...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

They didn't reuse pictures but they did reuse the same eyes once or twice.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Er...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I only got one wrong because I second-guessed myself. But lo I am the anti-aspie, as we have established in the past.

[andrewducker]

The research I've read shows that sociopaths are frequently very adept people persons. They're just _bastards_ along with it. See, for instance, the thing I linked to the other day about people who rated highly for sociopathy being able to spot "victims" very easily.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

Also, who decides (and how) what the 'correct' emotion is? If they get people to act, they could miss the mark. If it's a consensus of many folks assesment of a picture then who is to say that that is right either? Even if they take tons of photos of people and then ask the people making the expression they may not know themselves by the time they are asked.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Lol. Oh, I know that, I wasn't questioning whether channelpenguin was right. I was 'er'-ing in light of our conversation the other day and my score.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

ah, then I got the same woman twice with very similar expressions.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

:-) yeah, I was *relieved* to get some wrong

[andrewducker]

It doesn't really matter, to be honest. If you have a test that differentiates between people who are X and people who are Y then what you're testing on isn't that important. It could be that aspies always get something right while neurotypical people get it wrong - the test would still be predictive.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah! Gotcha.

I have no commentary :->

[marrog.livejournal.com]

It's not much of a sample set yet but it's looking as though either their 'average' is a little off or you have slightly above-average friends at this sort of game.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I agree - I'd be interested to see which ones we got wrong and if they were the same.

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

I got 29 and was surprised by how many I got right, especially as I don't think of myself as someone who can read other people easily.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The test doesn't quite work for me. I got the first half dozen right and then started feeling mild panic about getting subsequent ones right too, and then making mistakes due to overthinking. Argh.

But yeah, my own problems aside, I can pretty much ace this.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I started out doing poorly, then about halfways through I started to get a high percentage right.

Incidentally, it resized my browser, so I wonder if that was important. And if not, then why did they do it? As all it did in my case was annoy me - and then make me resize it back again before I started. If that's not what they wanted, then a failed quiz, I reckon!

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Also -- wouldn't it be fun if they chucked one in of the Mona Lisa's eyes?