Simple emotion recognition test

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I guessed a few too.........I used process of elimination "it isn't sadness, isn't shame disgust was already used but pain wasn't so I'll go with pain". Being a student and having practice doing multiple choice test helps.

Yeah, I think it was a teaching test, although I must say I'm a bit...(un)surprised. I don't ever recall seeing any facial expression that looked remotely like the "flirtatious" one, but the "polite" one and the "embarrassed" one are both very familiar...

On another note, I realized that I might be misconstrued as making the "desire" facial expression a lot because I lick my lips when I'm about to play trombone or when I'm thinking about playing it...it probably doesn't matter, though, since I'm over-sexed anyway...

They're very exaggerated facial expressions, and you get a lot of time to puzzle them out. So I think many of us will do well on this. I've done some research on facial expressions, and that helped.

If you want to do similar research, don't go for the books and articles that are trying to teach you to read subtle facial expressions. Instead, go and find the stuff that explains the anatomical changes in the facial muscles when someone is expressing an emotion. It's used in medicine (especially plastic surgery) and psychology. Artists and animators use this information too. I remember a guide on drawing faces being particularly useful to study.

I scored 14/20. The ones I didn't get were pretty subtle--things like embarrassment vs. shame, flirtatiousness vs. love, disgust vs. contempt.

In everyday life, I have trouble with faces because they change so quickly, and because if I pay attention to them I lose track of what the person is saying. A good indicator that I am paying close attention to someone is that I'm looking away, have my eyes closed, am gazing at the ceiling, etc. If you're saying something that doesn't take much processing power to understand, though, I can probably look at you--though my mind will wander.

I can recognize emotions....in pictures.

In context of conversations - that's another story. It's almost impossible then.

9/20

And most of the 9 that I got right were guesses...

11/20. I got some of the alter repeats because of statements made earlier in the quiz (like the observation that embarrassment means looking down and to the side, while shame means looking straight down). I guessed on several.

Also, as was pointed out, the expressions were exaggerated to the point of caricature, which made it easier to guess due to so many cues.

I scored 11/20. I was bummed out by that. It seems I'm ok with simple emotions like sad, happy, angry but I did not do good on the more complex emotions I should also mention I have prosopagnosia so I guess that has effected this.

12/20 I think I only got that high of a score because the faces were exaggerated.

You only see that in television commercials. Or porno films.

17/20 for me. I find that I'm not that bad at puzzling out emotions, but it takes me longer to recognize and react to them than the average person. The fact that there was no time limit helped.

Yeah, I often recognize expressions but often wonder why a person feels that way, especially if I correctly pick on the fact that they're angry or upset but feel they have no reason to be.

Your Score: 8/20

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And missed all of the later ones.

12/20 (can u read that expression?)

14/20. Not bad for an Aspie, I guess.

12/20, about average. 1 or 2 were guesses but still

"Your Score: 12/20

Not bad. Your score places you around the average at reading expressions. And research suggests that people can improve their emotion recognition skills with practice."
No guesses, I've never practised, and the correct answer, was normally my second guess when I got it wrong.