That’s an interesting test! I scored 28, and for most of the questions I failed, I find that the correct answers make much more sense than my initial guesses when I look back at the pictures. I find #29 the most cryptic.
Look at the direction of the gaze and the lack of eye contact. When someone is facing you but looking away, they are either thinking of something else or being avoidant. If they are being avoidant and looking down, then they are generally being submissive, possibly because they are lying.
Score of 30 btw. I had the same experience where I was able to recontextualize the pictures. It would make a great application if it had like 100 pictures.
Edit: Just a thought, would it be useful to people to have an article or something describing specific things to look for, like I have above? Sort of like an emotional taxonomy? It seems like it’d be an interesting project.
I think I used a combination of gaze/eye contact and eye shape, eg someone with very wide open eyes is probably scared or surprised, someone with narrowed eyes is concentrating/suspicious, etc.
Incidentally, my own score was 29 and none of my errors were completely implausible. This also goes a long way to explaining for me why it bothers me so much when people wear sunglasses.
would it be useful to people to have an article or something describing specific things to look for, like I have above
I think it would be great, but might be hard to include sufficient detail to be useful to people who have difficulties. Preoccupied and guilty both involve lack of eye contact but how do you describe the other differences?
Well for those two, I think there are two possible differences. Guilty people are going to be looking down more and possibly have there eyes closed a bit more.
Possible attributes off the top of my head:
eye contact
general eye direction
direction of the face
open/closed
eyebrows
head tilt (look at number 21for a great example)
wrinkled/furrowed face
Are there any more? That’s definitely enough to categorize most emotions.
When you think about it, it’s quite telling about just how expressive our eyes are when this test expects people coming out substantially below average to still pick correctly twice as frequently as if they were just guessing.
That’s an interesting test! I scored 28, and for most of the questions I failed, I find that the correct answers make much more sense than my initial guesses when I look back at the pictures. I find #29 the most cryptic.
Look at the direction of the gaze and the lack of eye contact. When someone is facing you but looking away, they are either thinking of something else or being avoidant. If they are being avoidant and looking down, then they are generally being submissive, possibly because they are lying.
Score of 30 btw. I had the same experience where I was able to recontextualize the pictures. It would make a great application if it had like 100 pictures.
Edit: Just a thought, would it be useful to people to have an article or something describing specific things to look for, like I have above? Sort of like an emotional taxonomy? It seems like it’d be an interesting project.
I think I used a combination of gaze/eye contact and eye shape, eg someone with very wide open eyes is probably scared or surprised, someone with narrowed eyes is concentrating/suspicious, etc.
Incidentally, my own score was 29 and none of my errors were completely implausible. This also goes a long way to explaining for me why it bothers me so much when people wear sunglasses.
I think it would be great, but might be hard to include sufficient detail to be useful to people who have difficulties. Preoccupied and guilty both involve lack of eye contact but how do you describe the other differences?
Well for those two, I think there are two possible differences. Guilty people are going to be looking down more and possibly have there eyes closed a bit more.
Possible attributes off the top of my head:
eye contact
general eye direction
direction of the face
open/closed
eyebrows
head tilt (look at number 21for a great example)
wrinkled/furrowed face
Are there any more? That’s definitely enough to categorize most emotions.
A few important ones
pupil dilation
narrowing of eyelids
wrinkles in the bridge of the nose
wrinkles in muscles around the eyes
symmetry of movement
When you think about it, it’s quite telling about just how expressive our eyes are when this test expects people coming out substantially below average to still pick correctly twice as frequently as if they were just guessing.