Eye expression test by Simon Baron Cohen

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I always score 35/36 on this. I must disagree with one, or I'm careless the same way each time. I've separately challenged Uta Frith, Simon Baron-Cohen, Jill Boucher and Francesca Happe to create a test for 'mindreading' that I couldn't pass, but none have so far stepped up.

I get the very strong impression that they are emotionally attached to the idea that autistics cannot learn this stuff.

That attachment will be their downfall.

[Terminator theme]

I got 34/36. I learned all this stuff from the TV, and I manage to apply almost none of my knowledge in real-time. In real-time, when there is no RMET to do, I am all about checking out people's nosehairs and eye boogers, automatically.

Your score: 28
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult.
The correct answers for the ones you missed are:
1: playful
3: desire
5: worried
13: anticipating
24: pensive
25: interested
27: cautious
35: nervous

that is really hard. they all look exactly the same!

I scored a 26 just guessing on most of them. I honestly don't know what half of them were supposed to be expressing. They all look so similar!

Took this test again.

Your score: 22
The correct answers for the ones you missed are:

1: playful
2: upset
3: desire
6: fantasizing
18: decisive
19: tentative
20: friendly
21: fantasizing
25: interested
27: cautious
30: flirtatious
33: concerned
35: nervous
36: suspicious

Your score: 19
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult.


I think the ones I did get right were guesses - almost all the photos looked exactly the same to me. I am quite surprised as I have always thought I am quite good at this. I've been told that as a child I couldn't read people's facial expressions at all, but as an adult I thought I was doing OK. This probably explains why I am always asking my boyfriend if he is OK when he is fine, because I can't tell when he is irritated or not.

I did about as well as I expected. Maybe a little better even.



Your score: 18
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult. The correct answers for the ones you missed are:
1: playful
2: upset
9: preoccupied
12: sceptical
13: anticipating
15: contemplative
17: doubtful
22: preoccupied
24: pensive
25: interested
26: hostile
28: interested
29: reflective
31: confident
32: serious
33: concerned
34: distrustful
36: suspicious

I got an 11. Oh well, lol.

our score: 24
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult.

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Normally I'm a bit better in that test.

I score 34/36 on Eyes test.

MY SCORE:24/36

It's easy when you are looking in a picture who doesn't move the eyes all the time...

My problem with this test is that now that people know it's related to theory of mind and autism, it means that there are people who will purposely try to score low to achieve the result they think will put them on the spectrum. And I'm sure there have been many people who have done just that in this thread.

I'm glad I took this test about 3 or 4 years ago when I had no idea what it was for and what theory of mind meant.

I scored 30 out of 36. So not bad at all.

I got 31/36. The multiple choice made it rather easy. (It was quite easy to cheat on this test, and use process of elimination.) But I suppose it would have been impossible if it were open response, due to there being such a wide variety of emotions. One would have no idea where to start. Still, I encourage all of you to attempt reading the expressions without looking at the multiple choice answers; you will find, I believe, that it is much more difficult.

But I digress...

31/36 is truthfully lower than I would have expected for myself... I would have thought that I'd have taught myself all of these expressions by now. I would like to see this test given to a small child and see how they fare. Small children generally have an untainted mind, so we would be able to see if they have a natural ability to read emotions via eyes and eyebrows. Or is reading eye expressions learned by everyone? Is it just a matter of experience?

For some of them, I didn't read the eye expressions. I looked at the camera angles, makeup, etc. For the one where the correct answer was desire, I thought of all those pictures with women wearing smoky eyeshadow, angling their heads away from the camera but moving their eyes to look directly at it.

Oh, I have a question: Were all the female faces the same person?