Micro-Expressions Test

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How was this test designed?

Were the people in the clips acting or did they interview and pick clips or what?

Not sure this test is "valid" for our purposes if they are acting and even if they interviewed them, how would the test designers know how the people felt at a certain moment?

It's like lie to me. Yes the expressions are real. It might be staged, but those are their real expressions.

I got 20%. Now that was flipping difficult. I'm usually good with facial expressions but really? Some of them seemed the same.

Some of them came multiple times, yes. It was designed to get people to sign up to learn about it, probably a little too hard.

8%
I thought I was better a this

Most people give very subtle micro expressions so I believe it was supposed to be hard.

I started this test thinking I would do vary well but my confidence went down as the test went on I felt vary confused at most questions to the point ware I was just pressing answers hoping they would be the right one this test is vary hard
At least I got happiness right

46%

For some of them I had to make 2-3 attempts. I guess that's what lowered my score, because in the end I got all of them right. It's just that my cats were fighting and I wasn't all there in the test.

I have NLD for sure, not so sure about AS. I have always claimed that I have no problem identifying face and body expressions, that my problem is identifying lies.

I wanted to thank the OP for sharing this test, I was coincidentially looking for something just like that this week!

Seeing the scores NTs are getting, I think this test is definitely made to make people score low, regardless of how their brain works or how good they are at reading expressions.

As such, if you're an NT who scored low on it, odds are that it's not a measure at all of your ability to read expressions. So I wouldn't feel bad about it.

I got 0%.

My (probably aspie) father was watching over my shoulder and not doing much better than me.

However, microexpressions are supposed to be tricky even for NTs, so it's not surprising that Aspies get such abysmally low scores.

12% on the second try

14%, but that was just luck. I was confused the whole time.

I seriously question the validity of this test because as someone else mentioned, I got the same exact expression three times. Like, same exact clip and everything.

There has to be something else out there better than this...

http://www.aspietests.org/

Reading the Mind in Films and the Cambridge Mindreading Face-Voice battery. Both are better.

Edit: Fixed link. I wish I knew why, sometimes, some clipboard data is "sticky" and fails to be overwritten by another use of ctrl-x or ctrl-c

Last edited by Verdandi on 10 Jul 2012, 11:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am NT-ish and got a 30 and then a 46%.

I don't know if this would work for people on the spectrum, but for me, if I imitate the expression, even in just a flicker like they did it, it helps me identify what it was. Almost like the muscles in my face recognize the corresponding emotion more than my eyes do.

I do think they might down-score people though. I believe that I am a fairly good microexpression reader, or at least that's what I was told by someone who studies such things. I do not think I came by it naturally, though. I think it is an adaptive skill for some people. I think I have learned it by watching people so closely.

I`ve read that it`s really hard to fake a body language, to fake micro-expressions should be next to impossible, no? I mean, those two people doing it, they are pretending...so it would be normal that their expressions won`t trigger the proper response in our brain as it`s basically a lying. You can tell if somebody is lying because their body doesn`t lie, right?