Social Cognition Assessment
Social Cognition is built around the paradigm of Happé's Strange Stories Task (Happé, 1994), the most widely cited theory-of-mind test beyond childhood — short vignettes end in a character saying something that isn't literally true (a lie, a joke, sarcasm, a white lie, pretense), and understanding why requires reasoning about what the character believes, wants, or intends. The original task is administered verbally with open-ended responses hand-coded by a researcher; here every vignette is answered as a forced choice between the correct mental-state explanation and plausible-but-wrong alternatives, so it can be scored deterministically.
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What this measures
Social Cognition
Composite score across non-literal language and social reasoning.
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Non-Literal Language
Correctly interpreting lies, jokes, irony, and figurative speech.
Social Reasoning
Tracking beliefs, intentions, and misunderstandings distinct from objective reality.
How it's structured — 2 parts
- 1
Non-Literal Language
Understanding lies, white lies, jokes, irony, and figures of speech — statements that aren't literally true but make sense once you understand why they were said.
10 questions
- 2
Social Reasoning
Understanding misunderstandings, persuasion, and pretense — situations that require tracking what someone else believes or intends, separate from what's actually true.
10 questions
Question formats
How your score is banded
| Band | Score range |
|---|---|
| Developing | 0–30 |
| Average | 31–50 |
| Strong | 51–70 |
| Very Strong | 71–85 |
| Exceptional | 86–100 |