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The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Revised Version: A Study with Normal Adults, and Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High‐functioning Autism
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In 1997 in this Journal we published the “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test, as a measure of adult “mentalising”. Whilst that test succeeded in discriminating a group of adults with Asperger syndrome (AS) or high‐functioning autism (HFA) from controls, it suffered from several psychometric problems. In this paper these limitations are rectified by revising the test. The Revised Eyes Test was administered to a group of adults with AS or HFA ( N = 15) and again discriminated these from a large number of normal controls ( N = 239) drawn from different samples. In both the clinical and control groups the Eyes Test was inversely correlated with the Autism Spectrum Quotient (the AQ), a measure of autistic traits in adults of normal intelligence. The Revised Eyes Test has improved power to detect subtle individual differences in social sensitivity.
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“Likewise, scores in the RMET are similar to those seen in other publications with autistic participants [41, 71].”
From A 'choice', an 'addiction', a way 'out of the lost': Exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability (2019) · cites this paper as [41]
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“deficits in the popular ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ task (RMET) [41] were unrelated to the presence of self-injury, its range or frequency or its use for the functional purpose of communicating with others”
From A 'choice', an 'addiction', a way 'out of the lost': Exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability (2019) · cites this paper as [41]
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“Another study also reported that 8 weeks of cognitive-based compassion training could significantly enhance the accuracy in inferring others' mental states in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test [39] and increased the neural activation in the inferior frontal gyrus and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, which are important for the theory of mind [40].”
From Potential therapeutic effects of meditation for treating affective dysregulation (2014) · cites this paper as [39]
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“These ToM tasks measure the ability to employ mental states in explanations and predictions of behavior and as such can be distinguished from tasks that may only require emotion recognition (e.g., Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Oakley et al., 2016), or only require empathic sharing of mental states (e.g., Quesque et al., 2024; Reniers et al., 2011).”
From Longitudinal development of theory of mind in adolescence and its associations with fiction reading experience. (2025) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“While the Eyes Test is proposed to measure a single construct (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001), as noted previously others have suggested that there might be subscales composed of those items that represent positive, negative, and neutral affect (Harkness et al., 2005; Maurage et al., 2011; Konrath et al., 2014).”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“The Eyes Test was designed to measure the first stage of ToM attribution, which is identifying the relevant mental state of the stimulus (as opposed to the second stage; inferring the content of that mental state; see Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“Of note, this version of the Eyes Test is considered superior to earlier versions, largely on the grounds of reliability and validity evidence (see Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test is a popular measure of individual differences in Theory of Mind capabilities (ToM; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“The test distinguishes many clinical populations (most often individuals on the autistic spectrum) from unimpaired control participants in their ToM capabilities.”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“With the exception of item 17, the most frequently chosen response option was the correct response option (see Table A1 in Supplementary Materials), which is supported by prior studies of normal populations (e.g., Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Harkness et al., 2005).”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“First, Baron-Cohen and colleagues did not discuss purposely including items with different affects and they never proposed that the affect of the target word could be used to create subscales or should bias performance on the test, so in our analyses we operated under the assumption that there was no preference in terms of which items were the most appropriate for the measure of ToM.”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“First, Baron-Cohen and colleagues did not discuss purposely including items with different affects and they never proposed that the affect of the target word could be used to create subscales or should bias performance on the test, so in our analyses we operated under the assumption that there was no preference in terms of which items were the most appropriate for the measure of ToM.”
From A psychometric analysis of the reading the mind in the eyes test: toward a brief form for research and applied settings (2015) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“Based on the effect size (d = 1.27) between ASD and control participants on the RMET reported in Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al. (2001), we determined that a sample size of 19 participants per group would provide a power of 0.8 to detect group differences using an independent t test and α < .05.”
From ‘Theory of Mind’ is not Theory of Emotion: a cautionary note on the reading the Mind in the Eyes test (2016) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al., 2001
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“Its validity is supported by the poor performance of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) on the task (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al., 2001), a group that has known ToM impairments (Castelli, Frith, Happé, & Frith, 2002).”
From ‘Theory of Mind’ is not Theory of Emotion: a cautionary note on the reading the Mind in the Eyes test (2016) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al., 2001
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“The alexithymic group also performed significantly worse than the control participants reported in Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, et al. (2001): N = 225, M = 27.02, SD = 3.67; independent samples t test: t(237) = 2.31, p = .021, d = 0.638, 95% CI for d [0.094, 1.180]”
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“the original set of 36 items was split into two equally difficult halves (as in Samur et al., 2018, Experiment 3), based on the item accuracy reported for university students (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001)”
From The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition (2021) · cites this paper as Baron-Cohen et al., 2001
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“The present score after placebo administration is also slightly higher than ASD norms for RMET performance (61%).49”
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Metaphor creates intimacy and temporarily enhances theory of mind
Bowes, A. E., & Katz, A. N. (2015) · Memory & Cognition · doi:10.3758/s13421-015-0508-4 · Cited by 61
Friends and Lovers: The Relationships of Autistic and Neurotypical Women
Sedgewick, F., Crane, L., Hill, V., & Pellicano, E. (2019) · Autism in Adulthood · doi:10.1089/aut.2018.0028 · Cited by 76
Physical Contact and Loneliness: Being Touched Reduces Perceptions of Loneliness
Tejada, A. H., Dunbar, R., & Montero, M. (2020) · Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology · doi:10.1007/s40750-020-00138-0 · Cited by 80
The relationship between camouflaging and mental health in autistic children and adolescents
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Smith, R. L. (2015) · Journal of Adolescence · doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.08.020 · Cited by 71
“Theory of mind” is impaired in Huntington's disease
Brüne, M., Blank, K., Witthaus, H., & Carsten Saft, C. (2011) · Movement Disorders · doi:10.1002/mds.23494 · Cited by 63
“mental states comprehension by showing pictures of the facial region surrounding the eyes.(21) A problem of”
BackgroundOxytocin and the salience of social cues
Averbeck, B. B. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1004892107 · Cited by 64
“For example, in the reading the mind from the eyes task (RMET), images of the eye region of faces are presented, and the participant is asked to infer the emotion from just this information (11).”
BackgroundRusso, M., Mahon, K., Shanahan, M. R., SOLON, C. A., Ramjas, E., Turpin, J., & Burdick, K. E. (2015) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.004 · Cited by 62
Is “reading mind in the eyes” impaired in Parkinson’s disease?
Tsuruya, N., Kobayakawa, M., & Kawamura, M. (2010) · Parkinsonism & Related Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2010.09.001 · Cited by 63
“To examine participants’ ability to infer the mental states of others, we developed a Japanese adaptation of the revised version of the RMET [15].”
Structural Alterations of the Social Brain: A Comparison between Schizophrenia and Autism
Radeloff, D., Ciaramidaro, A., Siniatchkin, M., Hainz, D., Schlitt, S., Weber, B., Poustka, F., Bölte, S., Walter, H., & Freitag, C. M. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106539 · Cited by 67
“In ASD, a positive correlation was found between left amygdala volume and the RME-score (r = 0.41; P= 0.015) (Figure 3).”
MethodInfluentialLemmers-Jansen, I. L. J., Krabbendam, L., Veltman, D. J., & Fett, A.-K. J. (2017) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.001 · Cited by 67
“Research, however, shows that even though women frequently outperform men on mentalizing tasks (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Rutherford et al., 2012), this does not necessarily translate into higher trust, proso-ciality or social reciprocity.”
Alexithymia predicts poorer social and everyday functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Ospina, L. H., Shanahan, M., Pérez-Rodríguez, M. M., Chan, C. C., Clari, R., & Burdick, K. E. (2019) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.033 · Cited by 64
“We assessed additional social cognitive domains, such as theory of mind, using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
MethodInfluentialNeuronal correlates of strategic cooperation in monkeys
Ong, W. S., Madlon‐Kay, S., & Platt, M. L. (2020) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/s41593-020-00746-9 · Cited by 61
“Examples of this approach include false belief tasks 18 , reading the mind in the eyes test (RMET) 19 , or psychometric questionnaires such as the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) 20 .”
Optical Origins of Opposing Facial Expression Actions
Lee, D. H., Mirza, R. D., Flanagan, J. G., & Anderson, A. K. (2014) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/0956797613514451 · Cited by 69
Minimalist Approach to Perceptual Interactions
Lenay, C., & Stewart, J. R. (2012) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00098 · Cited by 70
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“(2006), the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ test (RME; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) was given to participants after they read the story.”
BackgroundMethodHarvey, P. D., Deckler, E., Jones, M. T., Jarskog, L. F., Penn, D. L., & Pinkham, A. E. (2019) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.05.010 · Cited by 65
“Among these deficits are impairments in theory of mind tasks, which measure the ability of a person to take the perspective of others (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
BackgroundSocial Cognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Review of Subdomains of Social Functioning
Jansen, M., Overgaauw, S., & de Bruijn, E. R. A. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00118 · Cited by 67
“Mentalizing/ToM in OCD The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (RMET) represents a measure of affective, social-perceptual ToM, whereby individuals are required to infer emotional and mental states of others based on only the eye region of the face (81).”
BackgroundSharp, C., Croudace, T. J., & Goodyer, I. M. (2007) · Social Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00378.x · Cited by 60
Implicit Social Learning in Relation to Autistic-Like Traits
Hudson, M., Nijboer, T. C. W., & Jellema, T. (2012) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/s10803-012-1510-3 · Cited by 65
“…that autistic-like social defi-ciencies may be found throughout the entire population to differing degrees, without a clear boundary between normality and psychopathology, and with clinical levels of autism at the high end of this continuum (Baron-Cohen et al. 2001a; Constantino and Todd 2003).”
InfluentialThoma, P., Winter, N., Juckel, G., & Roser, P. (2012) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.042 · Cited by 70
“Table 3 Average performance of the alcohol-dependent patients (ALC) and the healthy controls (HC) on the four subscales of the abbreviated German version (Paulus, 2007) of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) and on the Faux Pas Test (Stone et al.”
InfluentialLabuschagne, I., Mulick, A. R., Scahill, R. I., Johnson, E. B., Rees, E. M., O’Regan, A., Queller, S., Frost, C. D., Leavitt, B. R., Dürr, A., et al. (2016) · Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · doi:10.1017/s1355617716000321 · Cited by 63
Assessment of Driving Safety in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Anstey, K. J., Eramudugolla, R., Chopra, S., Price, J., & Wood, J. M. (2017) · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · doi:10.3233/jad-161209 · Cited by 62
Kimmes, J. G., Durtschi, J. A., & Fincham, F. D. (2017) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-017-0708-z · Cited by 65
“…study showed that participants who completed a single, 5- min mindfulness exercise demonstrated superior mental state inference abilities compared to participants in a control group, as evidenced by the scores on the Reading theMind in the Eyes Test (RMET; Baron-Cohen et al. 2001; Tan et al. 2014).”
MethodAydın, O., Lysaker, P. H., Balıkçı, K., Ünal‐Aydın, P., & Esen-Danacı, A. (2018) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.048 · Cited by 62
Cerniglia, L., Bartolomeo, L. D., Capobianco, M., Russo, S. L. M. L., Festucci, F., Tambelli, R., Adriani, W., & Cimino, S. (2019) · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00212 · Cited by 72
van Schalkwyk, G. I., & Volkmar, F. R. (2017) · Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/j.chc.2016.12.013 · Cited by 67
“From a neuroscience perspective, although some work has identified the ongoing presence of cognitive deficits in specific domains, such as theory of mind, understanding of brain development into adulthood for individuals with ASD is extremely limited.(14) Adding a final layer of complexity, preliminary research has id…”
BackgroundCephalopod Behavior: From Neural Plasticity to Consciousness
Ponte, G., Chiandetti, C., Edelman, D. B., Imperadore, P., Pieroni, E. M., & Fiorito, G. (2022) · Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnsys.2021.787139 · Cited by 66
“Indeed, a seemingly complex test termed “reading the mind in the eyes” has been devised to study how an adult human is able to assign a complex mental state to another simply by looking into his eyes (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
BackgroundMentalising music in frontotemporal dementia
Downey, L. E., Blezat, A., Nicholas, J. M., Omar, R., Golden, H. L., Mahoney, C., Crutch, S. J., & Warren, J. D. (2012) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.09.011 · Cited by 60
“Widely used tests of ToM such as the ‘Mind in the Eyes’ task (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) largely index affective ToM using stimuli derived from other humans, however it has been repeatedly shown that intentionality can be attributed even to abstract, inanimate stimuli (e.g., cartoon shapes: Heider…”
InfluentialMore than maths and mindreading: Sex differences in empathizing/systemizing covariance
Valla, J. M., Ganzel, B. L., Yoder, K. J., Chen, G. M., Lyman, L. T., Sidari, A. P., Keller, A. E., Maendel, J. W., Perlman, J. E., Wong, S. K. L., et al. (2010) · Autism Research · doi:10.1002/aur.143 · Cited by 62
Deficient biological motion perception in schizophrenia: results from a motion noise paradigm
Kim, J., Norton, D. J., McBain, R. K., Öngür, D., & Chen, Y. (2013) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00391 · Cited by 63
Childhood adversity and social functioning in psychosis: Exploring clinical and cognitive mediators
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“the Eyes task (Baron‐Cohen et al., 2001) presents participants with 36 images of”
BackgroundBaglio, G., Blasi, V., Intra, F. S., Castelli, I., Massaro, D., Baglio, F., Valle, A., Zanette, M., & Marchetti, A. (2016) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01604 · Cited by 68
Someone has to give in: theta oscillations correlate with adaptive behavior in social bargaining
Billeke, P. B., Zamorano, F. J., López, T. D. L. M., Rodríguez‐Sickert, C., Cosmelli, D. J., & Aboitiz, F. (2014) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsu012 · Cited by 59
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“…ability (Van Honk et al., 2011). pecifically, females with lower 2D:4D (i.e., higher early estosterone exposure) showed degraded performance on he ‘‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’’ task (RMET), a behavoral paradigm that serves as a proxy of cognitive empathy n humans (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).”
Theory of Mind in Bipolar Disorder, with Comparison to the Impairments Observed in Schizophrenia
Mitchell, R. L. C., & Young, A. H. (2016) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00188 · Cited by 66
To know or not to know? Mentalization as protection from somatic complaints
Ballespí, S., Vives, J., Alonso, N., Sharp, C., Jiménez, M. S. R., Fonagy, P., & Neus Barrantes-vidal, A. (2019) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215308 · Cited by 67
Metadata
- Authors
- Baron‐Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2001-02
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 241-251
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- OpenAlex
- W4294333904
- Cited by
- 4,555
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 5.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, mentalization, theory of mind, Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, autism spectrum disorder, test revision, psychometric properties, Autism Spectrum Quotient, autistic traits, social sensitivity, adults
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