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Mind In The Eyes Test

Graelwyn

Graelwyn

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Anyone else taken this, where you look at photos of eyes and have to pick from multiple options what emotion you see?

Oddly, I do very well on these tests.
It is when I am in the heat of the moment, in a real life social situation, that I fail at it.

This test was devised by Baron Cohen, who is of course a leading expert in the field of Autism, yet in my opinion, this test is unreliable because you have time to really look, you have a limited number of choices, some of which only 1 is really likely to be the correct one, and it does not mimic a real life social situation remotely.

Here is the test, for anyone interested.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind-behind-the-eyes/?_r=0
 
That test... I did horrible on it. Statistically, I would've scored better when I just guessed something. Would've atleast given me 9 correct ones, statistically speaking. Last time I did it I scored 4 correct ones :')

I always figured the notion of having pre-set answers is way easier, like you pointed out. You can probably figure some out by process of elimination. Which isn't the most realistic approach
 
Well, I received 29 out of 36, so I guess I'm in the average range. I agree, though, I don't think it reflects real life, in-real-time interactions. I don't usually stare into someone's eyes. In fact, I avoid eye contact, so it doesn't give me much time to figure out what the eyes are saying. Also, I just guessed at a few of them that I couldn't figure out, and happened to get them right. Go figure.
 
Cali Cat said:
That's interesting. I looked at the pair of eyes presented with no prompting words, and I couldn't figure out what emotion he was expressing. In fact, the answer I decided upon was completely wrong.
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I got it wrong too. I thought desire, lol. But it took me some minutes for anything at all to come to mind. The eyes in the other test are very exaggerated, to be honest.
 
I dislike how it's multiple choice. Sometimes the eyes would seem to me to show an emotion that wasn't one of those listed. Many times, in fact.
 
DH and I have been watching Lie to Me episodes on Amazon...it's fascinating to see how much people communicate in their faces!

Wondering...can a special interest in reading faces overcome an aversion to eye contact?
 
I've taken such tests a number of times....scoring average at best.

This subject has been discussed a number of times in other threads. I don't put much stock in the test itself. I'm inclined to think such a challenge takes on very different dynamics in real time when directly in the presence of someone you're trying to understand.

Under such test conditions, it in no way takes into consideration factors like social anxiety, which certainly can "color" the outcome for many of us.
 
I took it once and got 80% of them right. Eyes are just not enough information to me. Where are the arms and legs? What are the hands doing? What's the mouth doing? Where's the body facing? I prefer having the whole tamale rather than a few beans.
 
It's a limited number of choices, so you can kinda work it out. Also, in real life I find I have to sort of put a new persons face together, examine all the features and see them moving; I find it hard to recognise real people from their photos.. don't know if this is a touch of Prosopagnosia (inability to recognise faces), but, to be honest, I gave up on it; I know I've got a problem, so how was I doing so well?
Simon Baron Cohen is also responsible for Extreme Male Brain Theory and Theory of Mind, neither of which I'm sure I agree with. Can't we have some psychologists who're ASD sufferers coming up with decent theories?
 
I got bored pretty quickly so I quit :D I wanted to say "constipated" for almoust every image :) the reason why I recognize some of the emotions is because I tried to act them out when I was younger, sometimes in front of the mirror :)
 
This test is more about the 4 words they use to describe the expressions than the expressions themselves and is easy to game.
 
I got 28/36. Looking back on all the pictures now, I have no idea what each one is. There are a few that I can get but most of them I have no idea.
I think half that I got right was because I eliminated the 3 other choices.
 
I did this about a year ago and got 21/36 - I can get some of them, with others it's a case of guessing between two similar emotions and I don't always guess right.
 
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