Reading the Eyes
You see a photograph of a person's eyes and choose the word that best describes what they are thinking or feeling.
Every face was made for this test, so the photos, the words and their meanings can be shared freely. Take the test, or download the set and use it in your own work.
Photos in the set, each with four words. Every run shows 20 of them.
Real people. Every face was generated for this set, so no photograph shows or belongs to anyone.
For the photos. Use them for anything, no credit needed. The words and their meanings are CC BY 4.0.
Which word best describes what this person is thinking or feeling?
The question on every photograph. The four words change with each one.
What the test measures
The test asks one thing: how well you read emotion and thought from the eyes alone, with the rest of the face hidden. That is one part of social understanding, and people differ in it for many reasons, including tiredness, language and how familiar the faces look.
Not an autism test on its own
In studies of tests like this, autistic adults score a little lower on average, but a score cannot say whether one person is autistic. Only a specialist assessment can.
Your score
You see how many you got right. Once enough people have taken the test, you will also see how you compare with them.
Credit
The idea comes from the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test by Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues. The photos, the words and their meanings here were all made new; nothing is taken from the original.
Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., and Plumb, I. (2001). The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(2), 241 to 251.