Can You Read People’s Emotions?

[warrior1]

My score: Score:23/36


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/well-quiz-the-mind-behind-the-eyes/?_r=0

[LiberalEsto]

1. 26 nt

[antiquie]

2. That was fun 29/36.

[mockmonkey]

3. 31/36

I had trouble with Pensive, Defiant, Doubtful, Cautious and Accusing. Some of the Pics were so dark. The choices could be either/or in my mind. I'm actually shocked that I did that well.

[BlueJazz]

4. 27 The second one was WTF??

[rug]

5. 29

[BlueJazz]

6. "Aw Geez...Oatmeal again ??"

[rug]

7. I was hoping for 30.

[CitizenLeft]

8. 32/36

I missed a tentative, uneasy, preoccupied, pensive.

[cristianmarie533]

9. I got a 28 out of 36

Wow, that was a surprising result. I guess I know people's feelings better than I originally thought.

[handmade34]

10. 2 wrong...

unfortunately, I have no contact with real humans in which to use my great skill

[Avalux]

11. 32/36

Interesting the same photo was used with different choices.

[sarge43]

12. 26/36. nt

[LeftofObama]

13. 26/36

Better than I thought.

[surrealAmerican]

16. same here

I had figured I'd do much worse. If I could have seen their mouths, it might have been easier.


Some of the photos were really dark and hard to read.

[femmocrat]

14. 31/36

[alarimer]

15. 20. I suck at this

Not surprising. I can't read people at all and am always, always doing or saying exactly the wrong thing.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. exactly what I got...

though I would have got 2 more if I had gone with my first instinct. So, I suck, too.

[HereSince1628]

17. 27/36, LOL

My SO says I am terrible at reading people's emotions, and it seems I'm reasonably average.

[LWolf]

18. 28/36. nt

[Generic Brad]

20. 24/36

Apparently I cannot tell when a woman is fantasizing, is interested, or is flirtatious. Perhaps I don't recognize those looks because no one of the opposite sex looks at me that way. Sigh.

[LoveMyCali]

43. I actually think it was wishful thinking

on the person that made up the test. Did you notice how often they had attractive women fantasizing?

[SalviaBlue]

21. 30/36

[cyberswede]

22. 31/36...

You could tell a lot by whether or not the eyes were looking at the camera.

Fun quiz!

[MrMickeysMom]

23. 30/36

Huh... That was interesting... Apparently, I'm right at the doorway of being quite perceptive. I must see the widow to the soul...

This explains why it doesn't work on the internets!

[rrneck]

24. 29 nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. 33/36

I was so good at reading people's faces/emotions when I was a kid that I honestly thought that I could read peoples minds!

[Marie Marie]

26. 33/36

90% of all communication is non-verbal. I've always looked beyond the words.

[Recursion]

27. 32. Interesting: every time I second-guessed my original reaction - every single time - I was wrong

and my original reaction was right

[Dash87]

39. Same here

[adirondacker]

28. 32. Interesting test. nt

[Xyzse]

29. 33/36 - Massive guessing on 4 correct ones

I find myself having a harder time figuring out guy's eyes.

I just don't pay attention to guy's eyes much at all.

Oh, and I have a hard time reading irritation through eyes it seems.

[Tom Ripley]

30. 33/36, but I am a sociopath

[Locut0s]

31. 30/36 I read people's emotions too much...

Always on edge about other people's emotions. Constantly worried that I'm being judged or negatively evaluated and worried that people will be hostile towards me. When you live like this 24/7 you develop a habit of constantly monitoring peoples emotions and faces without realising it.

On the ones I got wrong most were me reading negative or hostile emotions that weren't there it seems. Course this could just be a stupid test too

[libodem]

33. you have pretty good radar

I think I do to. I'm an adult child of alcoholics. We are regular little radar screens for emotions that might predict behavior disturbance in the force.

[libodem]

32. pretty good

32/36

[blogslut]

34. Bah!

I got about twenty in (with four wrong) and stopped. The eyes are an important indicator of emotion but, in order to properly read another person's emotional state, one must see the whole face. The test is inadequate.

[Blue_In_AK]

35. 28 of 36

This was a pretty interesting test.

[polly7]

36. 31/36

I missed mostly the angry/hostile ones.

[caraher]

37. 34/36

I took my time about it, though. I think that helped. My wife got 32/36.

[Dash87]

38. 26/36 :P

[Neoma]

40. 26.

[Recursion]

41. All the faces were caucasian

Curious how white vs. nonwhite test takers do.

[hunter]

42. No.

And all those eyes creep me out so much I had to quit at #5.