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.

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[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.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I also hypothesises that perhaps I'm bad at emotions but very good at spotting the "right" answer from sets of four, and that I should try taking it again _without_ looking at the eyes. Or that the test is actually testing something else. But I don't think it is; I imagine it is just what it says.

(I also noticed what Elmyra says)