Interesting Test of Recognising Facial Expressions

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18/20 --- I missed love and contempt LOL. I recognized contempt but didn't want to select it (touché) --- I totally didn't recognize what they said is love --- I think they're wrong LOL.

My childhood theatre classes helped. In college I studied communication alongside my engineering degree.

12/20 for my ASD daughter, age ~12. I expect her score will increase as she learns our cultural norms for expression. She herself is mostly inexpressive (flat affect), except when she smiles with excitement and uncertainty.

That's me falling at the first hurdle then!

That's an amazing score Sharon!

I think when I was young I might have scored higher because I was constantly socialising due to my sociable parents and large group of friends.

^ Use it or lose it?

Thanks. You should have seen me in my theatre classes, I was completely clueless. I was about my daughter's age and we'd do these exercises where the other person had to convince you of an emotion. I would immediately believe my partner, but they wouldn't believe me - I tried a million different variations of vocal tone but it didn't occur to me to vary my facial expression. Eventually I improved through trial and error - or my classmates gave me a pass.

Yes it is definitely use it or lose it.

I'm sure my facial expression is the same all the time. However, the other day I went to coffee with my friend. Some other people were trying to encroach on our seating area, so I said, 'you can sit there but my friend and I are having a deep discussion.'

She was telling me about how decades ago, her sister died mysteriously, either jumped off a building or was pushed. Partly because she is my friend and partly because I wanted to show the encroachers they were encroaching, I put a lot into my tone of voice and expression. To me it felt like I was over-acting with wide eyes, open mouth and lots of comments like, 'oh my god' 'how awful' etc. I even squeezed her hand, because she is a good friend and not a stranger.

But it worked! My friend felt seen and comforted, the encroachers were terribly embarrassed and tried to pretend they weren't listening. Very British.

But I successfully pretended to be 'normal' and react normally! hurrah!

^^ Well done! Yes, I would have struggled with sharing too many details or bluntness. To summarize the situation with "deep discussion" - nice.

Thanks!

I suppose one thing is I am used to dealing with children and teenagers and making them be quiet without sharing details as to why. The encroachers were slightly impolite too, so my hackles raised.

I don't think I could have done that. I would have felt too self-conscious. But it's interesting you mention you are British and this was in the UK. I think talking loudly and emotionally and making pronounced facial expressions would go unremarked in the US, at least in big cities.

I am quite conscious whenever I interact with people to try to show concern for their troubles, if they have expressed any. Not that I don't care about their troubles, but it wouldn't occur to me to show it unless I was consciously thinking about it, so I also have these kind of stock responses that I know seem sincere but not over the top, which would make them seem insincere.

Oh, and I got 13/20 in the quiz. But if it had not been multiple choice and I had to generate the answers myself instead of choosing from the options provided, I would have been stumped on most of them.

8\20

I'm worse at.telling expressions than I thought.

Yes I live in a small English village. Talking loudly and emotionally and making expressions is VERY MUCH disapproved of. In a city it might be unnoticed however.

With those encroachers, I'm also a mother and a former teaching assistant. I'm fairly used to keeping unruly people/children under control quite quickly. And I was protecting my friend, that always brings out my blunt side.

It's something I've learned- to show my concern outwardly. I'm usually very upset inside but forget to show it outwardly and people think I don't care or something.

Yes with that facial expressions test, if I hadn't had some options to choose from, I'd have been pretty stumped too.

OMG guys!

Here is a facial expression test where you have to pick out the expression that does NOT show the named emotion.

Good luck with this one!! !!

https://www.paulekman.com/quizzes/whats ... test-quiz/

@KitLily - 6/7 for me. Apparently I am confused by blonde vs brunette disgust. Your score?

Which reminds me, my inexpressive ASD friend scored 12/20 on the other one, less than my score as an expressive person. I wonder if the recognition of expressions is correlated with the outward expressiveness of a person. Which came first?

5/7 but im analysing very carefully