Hi
Has anyone used the Mind Reading software developed by Simon Baron-Cohen. It costs £80 and I am wondering if its worth it.
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.
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 
Is the kid at the top right of that website a young Harry Potter? 
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
Is the kid at the top right of that website a young Harry Potter?
