Another face expression test

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12 out of 20. However, I had to guess on most of the faces, because they looked more angry to me than sad! It also took me a long time to make a decision based on the pictures. That's something that never happens in real life! Wish I could have more time to react in person instead of a split second!

You identified 13 emotions correctly out of 20.
If you scored between 0 and 8 you may have problems identifying emotions in facial expressions.
If you scored between 9 and 14 you can identify emotions correctly some of the time, but may have problems recognising emotions in more subtle facial expressions.
If you scored 15 or more you can usually identify emotions correctly.
Of the 13 emotions you identified correctly, you selected the correct intensity for 3 of them.
In relation to depression...
In relation to depression...
Depressed people are more likely to perceive neutral faces as sad than happy, and are less likely to identify mildly happy faces as happy, only recognising the emotion when it is less ambiguous. Their depression appears to bias their perception towards negative emotions. They may also be impaired in identifying other more subtle emotions.

I scored 12 correct, which was surprising since while I was doing the test it felt like I was getting them almost all right.

Something that Tony Attwood said about the Baron Cohen test is that Adult Aspies can do well, but they take longer (e.g. 5 seconds) to make choices whereas NTs make the choices more quickly (e.g. 1 second). Because they are compensating by using cognitive channels. I found I did tend to take a long time making choices, more like 5 seconds each time.