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
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