CAM-F

Cambridge Mindreading Face Task

About This Assessment

The Cambridge Mindreading Face Task assesses your ability to recognize complex emotions and mental states from dynamic facial expressions. You will watch short silent video clips of people's faces and choose the word that best describes how the person is feeling.

Note: This is a screening measure of emotion recognition ability, not a diagnostic tool. Results are for informational purposes only.

How to Answer

You will watch short video clips showing people's facial expressions. For each video, four emotion words will appear beneath it. Your task is to select the one word that best describes what the person is feeling.

  • • You will first see two practice examples with correct answers shown
  • • Videos will auto-play when each question loads
  • • Click any video to replay it as many times as you want
  • • There is no time limit
  • • You may choose only one answer per video
  • • Time: approximately 10–15 minutes

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Attribution & Research-Use Notice (CAM – Face Task)

Based on: Golan, O., Baron-Cohen, S., & Hill, J. (2006), "The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Face-Voice Battery: Testing complex emotion recognition in adults with and without Asperger syndrome," Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-005-0057-y.

Research-use context: The CAM Face task materials are distributed via the Autism Research Centre (University of Cambridge) as downloadable tests intended for research/clinical/professional use, with acknowledgement, and not for commercial use.

Changes: Reformatted for web delivery; scoring automated (stimulus content unchanged).

CAM-F Practice 1

Practice item — The correct answer is Admiring

CAM-F Practice 2

Practice item — The correct answer is Restless

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