--Original published at Tyler's Ideas
While taking the Berkeley “Test Your Emotional Intelligence” quiz I scored a fourteen our of twenty. Honestly, I do believe that my score reflects how well I can read emotions. The emotions that I struggled with were the more negative emotions. For example, I got fear, contempt, pain, compassion, and sadness wrong. A lot of these emotions look like each other. For the most part, I thought a lot of emotions were sadness. This may be because I express my emotions differently. This is where the test may start to lack credibility. Due to the fact that everyone expresses their emotions differently, the test may look like one person’s emotions but not another’s. Who is to say that one look conveys a specific emotion while the other one doesn’t. The easiest emotions I could tell apart were the positive emotions. Some of these emotions include happy and pride. I am not exactly sure why the more positive emotions are easier than the negative emotions. It is possible that because positive emotions are more direct and certain, it is easier to read them off of someone’s face. I could absolutely use this information in my everyday life. Realizing that people show emotions different allows me to maybe not judge one as quickly. I am not sure what is going on inside of a person and judging them based on their facial expression can sometimes lead to false ideas about what is going on. Just because someone looks angry does not mean they are mad. It may just be the persons resting face. Overall, the quiz was very informing and I learned that not everyone has the same looking emotions.