Social Intelligence Test


How well can you read emotions of others just by looking at their eyes?

Find out and compare yourself to others.



The ability to read the emotions of others is linked to "social intelligence" which, in turn, is linked to performance on team-based problem solving tasks.

The test typically takes 10 minutes to complete.

 

This test requires a laptop or a tablet. It will not work on a phone. The test may also not work properly on older versions of Internet Explorer.

This is an implementation of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test developed by prof. Simon Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself.

These questions are optional, but if you could answer at least the first four, that would really help us. ( Why?)

Have you taken this test before? (important)

How old are you? (important)

What is your gender? (important)

What is the highest level of education
you have received or are pursuing? (important)


Imagine a 6-step ladder where on the first step stand the poorest people in your country, and on the sixth step stand the richest people in your country. On which step are you?









Compared to your family and friends,
how good are you at reading people's emotions?

Do you think reading people's emotions is a skill that can be learned and practiced?


How often do you use a computer?

In what country did you live most of your childhood?
(Please pick one that influenced you the most if you grew up in more than one)


In what country have you spent most of the past five years?




 

Why are you participating in this study? (Optional)

How do you describe yourself? (Optional)



I would prefer complex to simple problems



I find satisfaction in deliberating hard and for long hours



Thinking is not my idea of fun



I would rather do something that requires little thought than something that is sure to challenge my thinking abilities



You have completed the main part of the test!

We have some more question for you (optional).

Some psychologists hypothesize that there are links between personality traits and social intelligence. This is why we have added these extra questions. They are optional, but if you are willing to answer them, it will help us a lot!



I prefer to think about long-term projects to small, daily ones



The idea of relying on thought to make my way to the top appeals to me



I try to anticipate and avoid situations where there is a likely chance I will have to think in depth about something



I only think as hard as I have to



You have answered half of the questions.

A quick break.




Please take 10 seconds to think of a situation when you enjoyed having responsibility of handling a situation that required a lot of thinking.





(Buttons for moving to the next part of the study will appear within 10 seconds)

Did this situation occur primarily indoors or outdoors?



Was it raining or snowing when this situation unfolded?



Where were you when this situation unfolded?



Instructions

This test will investigate your ability to read emotion from the eyes. You will be shown a pair of eyes with four emotion labels around it. You are to select which one of the four emotion words best describes the emotion that the eyes are showing. Please provide one best guess for each item.

There is one practice question followed by 36 test question.

We will tell you how you did compared to others at the end.

Face

What emotion are the eyes showing?


Instructions

This test will investigate your ability to read emotion from the eyes. You will be shown a pair of eyes with four emotion labels around it. You are to select which one of the four emotion words best describes the emotion that the eyes are showing. Please provide one best guess for each item.

How do you feel?

Select the figure that best describes how you are feeling (optional).

Valence Range 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Completely
Unhappy














Completely
Happy


Arousal Range 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Completely
Calm














Completely
Excited


Why are you taking this test? (Optional)



Because I think taking this test is interesting.



Because I think taking this test is good for me.



Because I am supposed to take it.



There may be a good reason to take this test, but personally I don’t see any.



Why have you decided to skip to the end of the experiment?

The test..
takes too long.
is too hard.
is too easy.
Other:


This question is optional, but if you could provide an answer, that would really help us improving our experiment.

You have completed the main part of the test!

We have a few more question for you (optional).

More often than not, losing does not bother me.

It bothers me when I have to ask for help.

No matter what the situation I would never act violently

It would be awful if people thought I was gay.

I enjoy taking risks.

I like to talk about my feelings.

It would be enjoyable to date more than one person at a time.

When I am talking, I am interrupted more than other people.

My suggestions or ideas are respected and valued as much as other people's.

Next

The last questions while we prepare your results...



If you are not a native speaker of English, did you recognize all the words used to describe emotions?



Did you encounter any technical difficulties or interruptions during this study?  



Did you cheat or in any way provide false information? If yes, how?  
It's OK if you used a dictionary to lookup some words



Do you have any other comments for the researcher? Questions, Suggestions, or Concerns?



 

You answered % of the questions correctly.

How did others do on this test?
On average, other people answered 74% questions correctly. But we found that not everyone does the same on this test:

Does this test work equally well for all people around the world?
This test was developed in Great Britain and the images you saw were taken from British magazines in 1990's. Unsurprisingly, the test doesn't work perfectly for people who are not native speakers of English or for people who come from cultures that are very different from Britain's.

Should you worry if you got a low score?
No. Your screen lighting level, mood, fatigue and many other factors might have affected your score. The results of this test are useful when they are averaged across many people, but they can be inaccurate for any individual person.

Typical results. In the original experiments with this test, the average ratio of correct answers for British adults was 74%. The average result for students was 80%. However, individual results ranged from 49% to 100% as many factors may affect performance: the lighting, the quality of your screen, your emotional state, fatigue, not to mention knowledge of the English language.

Social intelligence and team-based problem solving. Recent research published in Science in 2010 demonstrated that there is a link between how well team members perform on this test and how well the team performs on complex problem solving tasks. In fact, the overall "social intelligence" (or "collective intelligence" as it is referred to in the paper) was more than five times more important to the team success than the average IQ of the team members!

Besides this test, there were two other factors that were found to be important for team success: how equally team members contributed to the conversations (teams where one person dominated the conversation performed less well than those where all members contributed roughly the same), and the number of women on the team (yes, the more women, the better the team did! Sorry guys...).

If you want to hear this from the horse's mouth, here is the paper:

Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T. W. (2010). Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, 330(6004), 686-688.

Reading the Mind in the Eyes and Autism. This test was originally developed by prof. Simon Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge as part of his and his team's research on autism. Adults with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism answered on average 63% correctly on this test. Again, large individual differences were observed. There is big overlap between the results of typical adults and adults with Asperger Syndrome.

The paper describing the version of the test used in this study is here:

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I. (2001). The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: a study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 42(2), 241-251.

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Your score is out of 36.

The average score is 26.

Does this test work equally well for all people around the world?
This test was developed in Great Britain and the images you saw were taken from British magazines in 1990's. Unsurprisingly, the test doesn't work perfectly for people who are not native speakers of English or for people who come from cultures that are very different from Britain's.

Should you worry if you got a low score?
No. Your screen lighting level, mood, fatigue and many other factors might have affected your score. The results of this test are useful when they are averaged across many people, but they can be inaccurate for any individual person.

Typical results. In the original experiments with this test, the average score for British adults was 26. The average result for students was 28. However, individual results ranged from 17 to 35 as many factors may affect performance: the lighting, the quality of your screen, your emotional state, fatigue, not to mention knowledge of the English language.

Social intelligence and team-based problem solving. Recent research published in Science in 2010 demonstrated that there is a link between how well team members perform on this test and how well the team performs on complex problem solving tasks. In fact, the overall "social intelligence" (or "collective intelligence" as it is referred to in the paper) was more than five times more important to the team success than the average IQ of the team members!

Besides this test, there were two other factors that were found to be important for team success: how equally team members contributed to the conversations (teams where one person dominated the conversation performed less well than those where all members contributed roughly the same), and the number of women on the team (yes, the more women, the better the team did! Sorry guys...).

If you want to hear this from the horse's mouth, here is the paper:

Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T. W. (2010). Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, 330(6004), 686-688.

Reading the Mind in the Eyes and Autism. This test was originally developed by prof. Simon Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge as part of his and his team's research on autism. Adults with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism scored 22 on average on this test. Again, large individual differences were observed. There is big overlap between the results of typical adults and adults with Asperger Syndrome.

The paper describing the version of the test used in this study is here:

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I. (2001). The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: a study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 42(2), 241-251.

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