Body Language Test

[violett]

Emotional Intelligence Quiz | Greater Good

Your Score: 18/20

Impressive. You've got a strong ability to read other people and understand what they're feeling. It's a great skill to have in a friend (and a poker player). Your score puts you in the upper echelons of emotional intelligence, yet research suggests that people can improve their emotion recognition skills with practice.

 

[BadOctopus]

16/20. Better than I expected, considering my Fe is crap.

Speaking of which, number 11 looked constipated.

 

[violett]

16/20. Better than I expected, considering my Fe is crap.

Speaking of which, number 11 looked constipated.

Laughing, yes, I agree

 

[prplchknz]

12/20 for some of them i started picking my 2nd guess and got those correct, so clearly i just react on my second impression and not my first in life.

 

[Andy]

13/20. Better than I expected.

 

[/DG/]

16/20

That one where the girl had her finger on her face was NOT what they said at all.

 

[Riva]

13/20

Shit

I got ALL of it wrong when trying to interpret the Asian dude.

 

[PeaceBaby]

I've seen this test before. It's about using the outward expression as a definition of emotional state. Yet these people are not feeling these emotions interiorly. It's very obvious they are only acting and thus, this test is a poor measure of one's ability to "read" other people. If you can't read what's inside and match it or recognize how it differs from what's manifesting outside, you're not really reading anything. You're only reading what people want you to see.

 

[violett]

I've seen this test before. It's about using the outward expression as a definition of emotional state. Yet these people are not feeling these emotions interiorly. It's very obvious they are only acting and thus, this test is a poor measure of one's ability to "read" other people. If you can't read what's inside and match it or recognize how it differs from what's manifesting outside, you're not really reading anything. You're only reading what people want you to see.

I have been told by people that I work with my face speaks volumes. I am emotionally expressive so no matter how much I may think I am hiding my feelings they are written all over my face. Also, women are typically more empathetically attuned to picking up and reading non-verbal feeling cues than men. There is also a better test (which was actually the one I was searching for) somewhere on the internet, which has more candid/natural photographs.

 

[Coriolis]

I've seen this test before. It's about using the outward expression as a definition of emotional state. Yet these people are not feeling these emotions interiorly. It's very obvious they are only acting and thus, this test is a poor measure of one's ability to "read" other people. If you can't read what's inside and match it or recognize how it differs from what's manifesting outside, you're not really reading anything. You're only reading what people want you to see.

Exactly. And since we cannot see what is inside people, if what we can see on the outside is unreliable, we cannot know someone's emotional state unless they tell us candidly what it is. I for one prefer not to guess.

 

[Such Irony]

15/20 better than I expected to do.

 

[Nico_D]

I've seen this test before. It's about using the outward expression as a definition of emotional state. Yet these people are not feeling these emotions interiorly. It's very obvious they are only acting and thus, this test is a poor measure of one's ability to "read" other people. If you can't read what's inside and match it or recognize how it differs from what's manifesting outside, you're not really reading anything. You're only reading what people want you to see.

Agreed. I took a look at this sometime before and they are just acting or mimicking emotions instead of truly feeling them. There might also be some cultural difference how people physically show their emotions, are they inhibited or not. Sorry, my opinion only, but that test does not indicate much.

I think the test in the link below is a bit better, the pictures are from some movies. At least the actors have had some situation leading up to the emotions. It's interesting and well done but I still don't feel it's completely reliable.

Test your social intelligence

 

[á´…eparted]

14/20

Better than I thought actually. Reading body language almost purely a learned skill for me (didn't come naturally).

 

[á´…eparted]

I have been told by people that I work with my face speaks volumes. I am emotionally expressive so no matter how much I may think I am hiding my feelings they are written all over my face.

I am the exact same way. It's both a blessing and a curse. The way I counter it is by expressing another feeling (genuine or not) much more strongly to mask the one I am trying to hide by the simple notion of making it dimmer by comparison. As a consequence I'll use sociability and talking quite a bit to hide something. When I am quiet it's way too easy to tell what's going on internally.

 

[Nicodemus]

13.

The blond guy is like a parodist of facial expressions. You have to read not what is shown, but what is supposed to be shown.

 

[laurapants08]

13/ 20 being I don't socialize that often.. I think it's pretty good

 

[violett]

Agreed. I took a look at this sometime before and they are just acting or mimicking emotions instead of truly feeling them. There might also be some cultural difference how people physically show their emotions, are they inhibited or not. Sorry, my opinion only, but that test does not indicate much.

I think the test in the link below is a bit better, the pictures are from some movies. At least the actors have had some situation leading up to the emotions. It's interesting and well done but I still don't feel it's completely reliable.

Test your social intelligence

33 out of 36

 

[Frosty]

13/20... Yeah some of those seemed a bit off.

And 31/36 for the other one