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Mind Reading: Emotions Library

Cary Grant

Hi

Has anyone used the Mind Reading software developed by Simon Baron-Cohen.  It costs £80 and I am wondering if its worth it.

www.jkp.com/.../

I have learnt lots from reading different books about body language and the art of conversation but my emotional vocabulary is still quite small.  I tend to put emotions either into positive and negative.

Thanks for your input.

  • I wish you the best of luck with it Cary, for £10 you can't go wrong really! I would be interested to hear how you are getting on with it and if you feel it is helping at all.

  • The problem is that real world situations are so different to software packages. We can learn emotions academically all we want, and can camouflage our aspergers by simulating emotion and acting out a script. But usually we can't generalise, meaning in an unfamiliar scenario no amount of acting will be of any use. The problem with Theory of Mind is a developmental one; we can catch up to a degree but we will always struggle to some extent, particularly ith interpreting emotion: everyone displays emotion slightly differently, requiring generalisation skills

  • I can see what you mean.  I have bought a second hand copy of the Emotions library for £10.  So I thought its worth a go.

    LOL I am the same I can read peoples eyes on that test but that's only because its multiple choice.  If I didn't have those choices I would be a bit lost.

    If only there was a piece of software to help with social situations!

    Also I think its a bit like the social diary I keep.  I look at it and update for at least 10 minutes a day.  I think I will have to do the same with this software 10 minutes a day, every day and over a year I will have done 60 hours of training on it so I hopefully should be able to recognise emotions more easily and without multiple choice prompting.

  • spektral said:

    Is the kid at the top right of that website a young Harry Potter? Laughing

    Yes, it is.

  • Hello,

    Thats an interesting piece of software. I would try out the demo and see what its like.    The only problem I could see with it is relating the software to real life. I have been talking with a few others on here about some ASD tests you can do, one of them is "The minds eye" which is a similar principle to this but focusing on the eyes more. I can score quite high on this test but in real life I generally have no idea what people are feeling. Like you I tend to be either positive or negative (often I think negative more).

    From the demo, it wouldnt help me I dont think. I know what all the types of emotion are and what a sad face should look like from a bunch of faces, and I can remember the picture of the person I saw on the previous screen that was sad and then click on it, does that mean I have learnt what sad looks like?

    I think you would you just be learning the faces in the game and associating that face with that emotion. As every face is different the same emotion would be very different from person to person. I got 100% on the game on the demo. Half the time the emotion I had in my mind wasnt even one of the options!

    Try the demo and see what you think, you might get more from it than I did Smile

    Is the kid at the top right of that website a young Harry Potter? Laughing