--Original published at Kaylyn's PSY105 Blog

Facial expressions are a very prominent feature of communication; especially, when we use them to express how we are feeling. We often use facial expressions in our daily conversations, and even if we are alone and smell a bad smell. Sometimes facial expressions can tell you more about how you are feeling than words can. Especially with me, I cannot always place my feelings into words, but my body language can relay information to another party. Since I use facial expressions and body language so frequently I thought I would do well when taking the “Emotional Intelligence Quiz”. This was not the case since I scored just slightly above fifty percent, scoring an 11/20. This shows me that I am not as good at reading other people’s facial expressions and body language. I truthfully thought I would do well on this quiz; however, a fifty-five percent is not close to a passing score in academic standards. I do believe that this test is credible since they do show you a breakdown of what makes the facial expression fit with the emotion they chose. Also, the website is created by the University of Berkeley, California. This leads me to believe that it is credible since it is a University and they probably did a lot of research on this topic. I tended to find emotions like sadness, disgust, or embarrassment similar because they both involved scrunching of faces. I think this test has shown me that I need to work on recognizing emotions better than I do now. I hope to take what I learned from the breakdown they gave after each question to help me figure out other people’s emotions.

Photo Credit: https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/goats-prefer-happy-people-who-smile-at-them-study-says/

--Original published at Psychology 105

Based on the results of the Emotional Intelligence Quiz, I appear to be decent at reading other peoples’ emotions. I scored a 16 out of 20, so I still have some room to grow as well. In my opinion, this score seems about right. I think I am good at sensing how others are feeling, especially with my friends and family. I think I can also pick up on strangers’ emotions as well, but it is more difficult. The test would show a picture, and there would be four choices of emotions to pick from. It seemed fairly reliable because each facial expression had an explanation for how the facial muscles contort when somebody is experiencing it. I’m sure that there has been substantial research conducted to come to these conclusions. Some of the expressions were very difficult to distinguish from one another. For example, a lot of them showed a person smiling, including happiness, amusement, and love. So, you really have to pay attention to other aspects of the face such as how the head is positioned and what the person’s eyes are doing. Although I understand that in general peoples’ faces demonstrate a lot of their emotion, I think there are other nonverbal factors you could consider as well. Doing a similar test in person with the models would probably be different than doing it online. If there were not multiple-choice answers to pick from, I’m sure my score would’ve been lower since it’s easier to use process of elimination and narrow down the choices.

--Original published at HarrysCollegeBlog

Emotions are one of the biggest influences on our actions, but reading others’ emotions can be quite a challenge. Often times, we say something that gets an unintended emotion across, and throws us into conflict. This can be especially challenging for those who aren’t used to communication or have mental inhibitions. Despite not having these inhibitions, I expected this emotion quiz to be quite difficult, due to my introverted nature.

The quiz itself was quite straight forward, you were shown a picture of someone’s face doing an emotion, and you were to analyze it, and pick a choice. The answer style was multiple choice, which seems to be much easier, and less effective at actually pinpointing your skill at telling emotions, due to the guessing factor in choosing an answer rather than writing it out. What I did enjoy about it, was how it gave you feedback on your answer, and explained the different parts of the face, and how it relates to emotion.

The quiz was overall quite well done, although Emotion can be expressed through not only appearance, but through tone of voice as well. It would be great if they added a voice testing part to this emotion quiz, where you would have to guess the emotion based off of the tone of the speaker.

--Original published at Taylor'sEtownCollegeBlog

Option 2: Before taking this quiz, I always had thought that I was pretty good at interpreting facial expressions. I pride myself on being able to tell people’s moods based off of their facial expressions and make lots of decisions based off of how people look that day.

After taking the quiz, I found that I was in fact very correct. I scored a 15/20 and it told me that I am better than the average person at reading expressions.  I found that identifying the major and most common emotions the easiest to identify.  For example, I was able to identify anger, happiness, sadness, and fear the easiest.  I believe that these were the easiest for me to identify because these are the most visibly obvious emotions worn on people’s faces.  The emotions such as disgust, shock, love, and desire were the hardest to identify because these emotions are often shown differently on people’s faces.

I could use this information that I found from taking the quiz to work more on being able to identify the more challenging emotions.  I believe that being able to identify emotions on people’s faces is a highly valuable resource because without the ability to, it would be very challenging to communicate with others.  Faces help us to judge how people are responding to us while we talk without the need to verbally tell us how they feel.  Conversations are more meaningful because you are able to directly see how your statements are impacting the person you are talking to.

I believe that this quiz was reliable because it came from Berkeley University.  Often times when universities post quizzes and such, they are scientifically backed and are valid.  Universities are considered a reliable source because of the amount of research and information that is available to them.

This was a very interesting quiz to take and I am happy with my results.  Even though I did well on the quiz, I am still more than happy to work on my analyzing skills to better my connections with others.

~Taylor

--Original published at Marisa Psych Blog

I like to think I am pretty good at reading peoples emotions through their body language as well as facial expressions. Taking the quiz, I received a 15/20. This is looked at to be better than the average person in connection to reading another expressions. I think the test is credible in the sense of reading others facial expressions due to the faces and all the possible connections and options on emotions you could link to the face shown. The easiest expression to extinguish apart from one another were expressions and happiness and sadness. Harder expressions to read seemed to be attached to feelings of pain, shocked or confused. Many emotions make your face seem to sit in the same sorts of resting. Happiness and sadness are easily recognizable due to the enormous difference in how your face reacts. I think this information is definitely useful in everyday life as well as helpful in understanding how peoples facial expressions really do play a role in communication. Non verbal communication is very big in society. So the trait of being able to read someone well seems to be an important skill. It actually surpasses me how much on daily interaction is nonverbal. I think emotion will be an interesting topic to learn more about.

--Original published at Gracie's Blog

I took the test (https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/ei_quiz) on how well I could read emotional facial expressions. I was surprised by my score of 16/20. I thought I was going to have a hard time with this test. I found that the amusement, politeness, and disgusted facial expressions were a few of the easier ones. The girl with the facial expression showing amusement looked like she was laughing, which made it easy. Each question had four choices, which helped out a lot. With the choices available I could narrow down the answer. I feel I would have gotten a lower grade if it was type your answer, but with the choices provided, you could pick the best option for the most part. Some of the hardest emotions for me to guess were love, guilt, and interest. I never really thought about what the facial expression for love looks like, and same with interest. The test overall was intriguing and I was interested in seeing how many I could actually get correct. In my daily life this could be helpful because I could pick up on how a person is feeling inside by their outside appearance, which could help me interact with them better.

--Original published at Makayla Hockenbrock

Before taking the emotional expressions test I would say that I am pretty good at reading people’s faces to determine their emotions. Being exposed to this a lot in my life and being around people who don’t like to say something is wrong, but clearly show it on their face, has helped me with this. I myself am one of those people, so I also understand the faces that would be made in those situations. I took the test and received the score of 17 out of 20. After it presented my score it told me that I seem “naturally well-attuned to others’ emotions.” According to the test, I am above average for reading people’s emotions based off of their facial expressions.

 I believe this score does reflect my prediction on how well I would do when presented a face and have to determine how they are feeling. Some of the easier emotions were happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise. Some of the harder ones were contempt, love, and passionate. When fear and anger were presented together it was sometimes difficult to determine between the two. I could use this information to be more aware what is going on with the people I surround myself with, even if they aren’t talking.

 I don’t know where I stand on the credibility of this test because all it does is present a face and then give you multiple choice answers to choose from. There is just something about that, that does not seem very credible to me, however, I cannot pin point what that something is at the moment.

--Original published at Caroline's Blog

Facial expression recognition plays a big part in understanding emotions. Using and understanding different facial expressions is important to understand how you perceive other people and how they perceive you. I took the emotional intelligence quiz and received a fifteen out of twenty. I was doing pretty well up until the end when some of the facial expressions became very similar. However, my overall score is higher than what I was expecting. I find this test credible because it is from a website that provides science-based insights and stories. The reasoning behind each answer was factual information about certain movements of different features on the face. It was harder to tell apart the facial expressions that were happier. Also, it was hard to figure out embarrassment because I did not make the connection that embarrassment can lead to touching your face. This information can be very useful in everyday life. Whenever you are having conversations with other people, you can figure out how they are feeling partially by their facial expression. If someone is distraught or sad, it would be easier to notice these emotions by their facial expressions and would be able to help them faster. If other people knew how to recognize facial expressions, then they would also be able to understand how you are feeling in a social situation. Understanding facial expressions can also be helpful when someone is in a dangerous situation and they are trying to show that they need help fast without making it obvious to whomever or whatever is causing them to be in the situation.

--Original published at David's Blog

For this first impression prompt I decided to choose the second option which talked about the ability to read peoples emotions based on there facial expressions. Before I took the test I believed that I could read facial expressions fairly well. After taking the test I found out that I got a twelve out of twenty. The website that the test was on also let me know that was an average score and that if I wanted to I could improve my facial reading skills. I’m not to sure how credible the sites test was, some of the facial expressions were quite odd and didn’t seem right. I also showed the quiz to some friends and they also found it odd and not quite right. The most easiest emotions to tell apart would be sadness and happiness. Some of the hardest to tell apart would have been surprise and pain. I wasn’t to sure why some of them were to easy or hard but I do believe some of the easier ones were just natural instinct. This information could be used every day to help others find out what could be wrong with there friends or loved ones. I do find it interesting how well certain people can read others emotions and feelings just by looking at their face expressions. It also intrigues me how some people are not good at reading emotions at all to the point to where there almost mute to emotions. I look forward to learning how to read emotions in our later classes.