I was browsing on Amazon and I noticed "Mind Reading: The Interactive Guide to Emotions, Version 1.3 with Game Zone, Learning Center, and Library" had dropped in price from when I originally looked at it. I was intrigued enough to go to the publishers website and see what they had to say for it. I was kind of perturbed to find that the research study they posted up to support it managed to only conclude that it helped with formal recognition of emotions but not necessarily generalizing any of that to the real world. Mr. Cohen turns around and suggests that there was a correlation between the amount of time spent working with the therapy and real world performance (as defined by watching TV, very funny I know since TV watching is passive and doesn't include any personal real time interaction) and that perhaps the therapy provided is only a good starter program and that something else is needed to transfer benefits from his software into real life. But he never says what to use to bridge the rest of the gap. I'm just very hesitant to fork out the hundred plus dollars if they're pretty certain I won't be able to generalize any of it to a real world application. I'm grateful somebody took the time to build the software, just not sure its worth my money.
So, that being said, has anybody here actually used this software and found that it improved their quality of life?
Oh, and anybody used the methodology described in the first chapter of "Ask and Tell" edited by Steven Shore?
21 Oct 2009, 1:37 am
