Mind in the Eyes Test-Disagree with score

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I always score really low on this test because they just show the eyes and not any other part of the face, tone of voice or body language. People tell me that I don't have problems with figuring out people's emotions, however, the mind in the eyes test, tells me different.

Do you agree with your results on this test? Why or why not?

I'm not allowed to post a link because I haven't been on here for at least 5 days, so just google "Mind in The Eyes" test and I'll post a link when I am allowed to.

yeah that's tough. there's more to the facial expressions than the eyes, but they don't show you. now i'm thinking maybe it is all in the eyes? for instance, someone can smile but not mean it? ack, now i'm confused. seriously, though, i don't know. gotta love the one where her face is half covered. gotta say i disagree with the test in general.

Here it is

Jeez... that test seems impossible to me

The test, I assume, tests specifically your ability to see what a person is thinking by looking just at the eyes. It doesn't test your ability to see what a person is thinking while looking at the whole person. This second ability may be just fine despite the lack of the first ability. You are simply compensating by reading larger movements.

got a 21 on this test, just like the last time someone posted it.

I got a low score. I couldnt really see past just a pair of eyes that looked goofy to me

The main trick is to try and make your eyes immitate the expression (or just try to imagine how it "feels" to immitate the expression) and then pick which word fits best.

The problem with that strategem for me is that it oh so causes headaches :/

right I agree, it would just frustrate me more to try to "feel" what their eyes are feeling.

I always do extremely well on those tests for some reason. Maybe it was because I was an actress/am a movie buff. I can spot a phony as hell performanc from a mile away.

This does me no good when interacting with a real, in flesh person because I absoletely will not look them in the eyes.

So do I. I've taken it several times and never get more than one wrong.

Maybe it is because it's a close up of the eyes, or maybe it's because they're unusually intense expressions, or maybe it's because they're just images without any known social context in which to be integrated, or because the people aren't trying to suppress or disguise their feelings (insincere, tempered or polite expressions are quite common in real life and these ones I very much tend to miss), or because they're static and unchanging. Maybe all of these things. But in normal situations, other people tell me things about other people's expressions or behaviour that I haven't picked up on.

Difficulty reading people's emotional states isn't a major problem for me though and not one of the reasons I think I'm on the spectrum - much harder is responding to them and signalling my own - so it's not necessarily a wildly misleading result, just somewhat.

I had a hard time at first, but then I figured out the pattern to the test.

When eyes are looking at you, people are active and engaged. When they are looking away, they are passive or distracted. Since most questions have 2 passive and 2 active emotions for each set of eyes, just pick the one of the two (active or passive) that seems right. I scored on the low side of normal.

That doesn't mean I had the slightest flicker of recognition of any kind of emotion for the pictures. Just that I figured out how the study was built and was able to successfully game the system.

I study faces because I do portraiture. So I am very good at recognizing nuances in an expression from a photograph. But quite often in real situations, I cannot keep up with the rapid flux of information and miss a great deal. Which often leads me to say things that cause one of those "you are REALLY strange" looks.

I find I can do it with most of the ones where the person is looking head-on.

I don't know how to distinguish the sideways glance looks though. There's too much shadow. They all look nervous to me.