I got a 33 - very surprising - I thought I got around half of them wrong. I missed 2, 20, 33. I must be an NT! :)

I can usually guess fairly well what people or animals are feeling by body language. How do you do with animal body language? I seem to remember you do very well with cat expressions without a lot of mental processing. I couldn't "train" a cat like you do...

My problem is predicting how something will affect someone.

For instance, there is the 'classic' relationship question - my girlfriend (when I had one) asked me "Do I look fat in this dress?" I answered yes because she did - it was too tight, and it showed the fat around her stomach and thighs. I immediately knew she was angry from her face, but didn't know why until I saw comedians joking about that question.

I have been doing better since then by just lying and saying 'you look great' about all appearance questions. :/

Another comment about the test - I answered the questions based on what emotions I thought the tester was trying to portray.

For instance, picture #3 was 'desire', and that was pretty easy to guess was the answer, but the woman in the picture is actually 'faking' desire. She is a model being photographed in a studio that was told to 'pretend'. She is doing a good job, except for her pupils. Whenever a human or animal sees something desirable or exiting, their pupils will dialate. Hers are contracted. She is not really feeling the pleasureable sensation of desire, but is faking it. There are other indications as well.

Almost all of those photos are of actors portraying emotions, and not real people actually feeling those emotions, and as a result, I answered what I thought the tester wanted, instead of what I thought the person was actually feeling.

So you got seven wrong... I got five wrong. Have to admit I'm a little surprised at that, since I didn't think I'd be very good at it.

I have to also add that the test was very difficult for me to take. Eye contact issues are unusually pronounced for me, to the point where I have great difficulty looking at photographs. For example, if I'm reading a column in one of my many publications, and there's a photo of the columnist, I typically have to cover the photo to be able to read the column.

I also have trouble looking in mirrors and usually have to avoid making eye contact with the reflection... shaving can be a little annoying sometimes, but I've learned to focus on other parts of my face.

> I took 1 - 3 minutes per pic

Wow. I took only a few seconds per pic, less than five seconds on almost all of them, and no more than ten seconds on any of them. I think the reasons for the discrepancy were twofold: first, my pronounced discomfort with eye contact probably made me want to hurry thru the test so I wouldn't have to keep looking at all the eyes, and second, I wasn't "analyzing" the pics the way you were -- I was going with intuition to try to figure out what the emotions were.

I automatically drop into analytical mode for things like that, and shut off my preferences in the process. When I can't stand the strain any longer, then I revert to intuition.

Something else I noticed was that the photographer somewhat cheated -- every time they wanted to suggest "desire" or something similar, they used a woman with lots of makeup on. All of the images reflecting a form of apprehension were of elderly people, concern was all middle-aged men...so it wasn't so much a test of eye-reading as our awareness of stereotypes, imho.

"...I have been doing better since then by just lying and saying 'you look great' about all appearance questions. :/"

I've never understood why some women ask if they look fat in something if they don't want to know. I simply wear baggy clothing and don't ask. With other people, I generally don't notice what their weight is. (The exception was once on my last trip, where I noticed just enough to tell Parrish his pants are now too big for his legs... :)

I got the same score as you, Moggy (though I missed different questions.)

It's kind of amusing to see that I guessed that friendly was arrogant.