"As a software developer with a first-class honours degree, logical problem-solving comes naturally to me, but team meetings are incredibly draining. During a project retrospective yesterday, my colleague narrowed her eyes and slightly raised her brow. Because her spoken report was positive, I assumed she was happy, but my team lead later told me she was clearly feeling anxious and overwhelmed. I find it nearly impossible to decode these subtle expressions around the eyes, despite my high academic capability. I rely entirely on direct, explicit instructions."
Describe Baron-Cohen et al.'s (1997) study into autism in adults (the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test) and explain how its findings relate to the software developer's experiences described above.
47 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Understanding disorders, covering Freud (1909): Little Hans and Baron-Cohen et al. (1997): Autism in adults. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.