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Emotional and social intelligence

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Revised).

RMET

What it measures
Theory of mind / mentalizing - inferring complex mental and emotional states from the eye region of faces
Length and format
36 (revised adult version). performance/ability - view eye-region photo, choose 1 of 4 mental-state words; accuracy-scored (performance/ability test)
Language versions
Translated into many languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, JA, ZH, AR, Turkish, Swedish, etc.); widely used worldwide in social-cognition research
Normative data
Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Baron-Cohen, S., et al. (2001). The 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test revised version. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(2), 241-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00715

https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00715

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