Facial Expressions Test

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You correctly identified 46% of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:

Joy: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correcly identified 0 of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified 4 of 4
Anger: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified 0 of 4

RESULTS:

You correctly identified 50 % of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:
Joy: you correcly 3 identified of 4
Fear: you correcly 1 identified of 4
Disgust: you correcly 2 identified of 4
Surprise: you correcly 3 identified of 4
Anger: you correcly 3 identified of 4
Sadness: you correcly 2 identified of 4
Contempt: you correcly 0 identified of 4

I think is notable that 'we' all seem generally to get about 3/4 for each of Joy, Surprise and Anger (which is 9/12 points) and then an average of about 5 or 6 out of 16 for the rest. A hypothesis:
- We are taught the simple positive emotions (such as the three we generally get right) and can probably describe them quite easily, i.e. mouth open is probably happy, unless the eyes are wide, in which case it is surprise. These are important for people around us, as they like to see positive feedback when they are nice to us. Oh dear ... I'm in a cynical mood again!
- The way that I chose the answers was to try and mimic the faces, and work out what I should be feeling with that face. I would guess that along with a lot of others, I was also looking for the "don't know" checkbox a lot of the time
- Actually, I correctly understood that most of the negative expressions were, in fact, negative - but I have a hard time distinguishing between them. Perhaps I should spend more time on these ... I have no recollection whatsoever, but as a kid I was probably just taught 'bad' face, and didn't progress past that point!

46%

You correctly identified 57 % of the expressions.

For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:
Joy: 3 of 4
Fear: 1 of 4
Disgust: 3 of 4
Surprise: 4 of 4
Anger: 0 of 4
Sadness: 2 of 4
Contempt: 3 of 4

Hm, quite alright.

Edit: Anyone else noticed that most of us can't get more than 1/4 right in the Fear-category?

You correctly identified % of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:

Joy: you correcly identified of 4
Fear: you correcly identified of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified of 4
Anger: you correcly identified of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified of 4

All I saw was a frown it means anger.
If I saw a smile it means contempt.
And if they have their mouth open it means surprise.

Guess it's not a very good system.

54%

like similar tests i've taken, i get the obvious (exaggerated) ones, and the more nuanced expressions lose me. it's not so much i don't know what they mean as i'm convinced they mean something waaaay off base compared to the options offered as a response.

in real life, context doesn't seem to clarify things for me a whole lot, but i wonder if NTs are somewhat context dependent for reading expressions. it would be interesting to see results of an NT control group.

My husband's an NT....he scored 57% and the only ones he confused were anger/contempt. It was interesting to see his score. I've been having him take all these tests so I can see an example of the NT response first hand.

out of curiosity i went back and skimmed through a lot of the responses and there were a few people who gave the test to NT friends who didn't do so well either. and people who said the expressions were staged by actors.

so the validity of the test (whether it reflects a real life deficit or not) is moot.

I got 50%. My wife is completely NT, and got 60%.

I don't know what the expected ranges of AS/NT results are, but there would be appear to be potential for a considerable degree of overlap so that the results don't appear to be statistically very significant.

"You mean - it isn't possible to accurately determine whether or not there is a facial expression recognition issue by looking at 24 photographs?!"

However I do consider it notable that we tend to be better at distinguishing between the 'good' faces ... on a personal level my wife says that I'm not very good at 'fine tuning' my 'bad face' reactions - and often appear too angry/contemptuous/sarcastic when responding to a (third party) comment with which I do not agree ..... so I have some homework this month

I'm curious what scores would be if for ones that we had no clue on, instead of trying to reason through and come up with a decent guess, we marked one that we knew was obviously wrong.

NT and I got 57% I got all the fear ones wrong
I find you need to know someone to read their expressions properly or the context of what is happening..or at least I do. If you had each persons shots next to one another you would be able to do it a lot easier.
That girl with the scarf was hard to pick all the frowning ones looked the same!

64% correct, boo yah I'm stuck in a world a over-examined minute details, so I got almost all of the subtle ones right, while missing on some of what would be the most obvious expressions to many others. I'm kinda lucky as an Aspie in that, while I still have to exhaustively translate all of my thoughts in real-time, I can at least read expressions quite well in normal life.. Reaction is a whole 'nother story though lol

Joy: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correctly identified 2 of 4
Disgust: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Surprise: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Anger: you correctly identified 4 of 4
Sadness: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Contempt: you correctly identified 2 of 4

RESULTS:

You correctly identified 39 % of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:
Joy: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correcly identified 0 of 4
Disgust: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Surprise: you correcly identified 3 of 4
Anger: you correcly identified 2 of 4
Sadness: you correcly identified 1 of 4
Contempt: you correcly identified 1 of 4

Details:

So I guess its true what my girlfriend says... She is complaining a lot about me not being able to read her right. Most faces I had no clue, only joy and surprize where easy.

How is this an expression recognition test if the pictures are of fake expressions?

I often avoid looking at people's faces because there is too much information. The eyes alone are like lightening, but to have a whole face showing intense emotion is quite overwhelming. I have very intense visual memories of faces of people who have looked at me during an acutely emotional moment for them and it was like having my esophagus ripped out and bashed against a street curb...under a layer of nothing. I felt...yet I did not. Or I felt, shut off, and then wanted to feel but could not.

The faces in this test...
I think that I can see through them to the goofy person being asked to make faces, so none of the choices fits. But here I question myself...am I picking up on the most minute details, i.e. am ultrasensitive to the pieces of the face puzzle, and that is why I see them as actors ( o_o if they are actors??). Or have I intellectualized all the components of the experience of this test and only see them as actors because all my experience tells me it would be impossible to get pictures like this otherwise....no one can go through emotions quickly like that "in reality."

Yet another possibility is that I am looking at each trigger location (mouth region, nose region, eye region, etc.) on these faces so individually that the whole escapes me. I see a combination of half the options, all in different amounts.

In a real life situation perhaps the person will already have grabbed their things in frustration with me, be in their car and driving away before I decide what it is their expressing.

Because of my refusal to say that something is one thing when it is not entirely that thing, I suppose I get almost a %0 percent on this test.

Look this is my amused face ---> *amused, confused, slightly pained at myself expression*

You correctly identified 57% of the expressions. For each emotion expressed, your score is as follows:

Joy: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Fear: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Disgust: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Surprise: you correctly identified 4 of 4
Anger: you correctly identified 1 of 4
Sadness: you correctly identified 3 of 4
Contempt: you correctly identified 1 of 4

I mistook one of the Anger faces for Joy, I think that was the weirdest mistake I made. Some of those were really difficult.

I got 50 %. I was confusing anger with contempt and vice versa. I found the more subtle expressions confusing.