Pymetrics Games Emotional Intelligence Assessment 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Pymetrics' Faces game, you are shown a series of facial expressions for a brief moment. What primary emotional trait does this game measure?
- Long-term memory recall
- Ability to recognize emotions from facial cues (Correct answer)
- Mathematical processing speed
- Spatial reasoning
Correct answer: Ability to recognize emotions from facial cues
The Faces game assesses how accurately and quickly you can identify emotions displayed on faces, measuring emotional perception—a core component of emotional intelligence.
Question 2: During the Pymetrics Money Exchange game, a partner offers you an unfair split of $10 (e.g., $2 for you, $8 for them). Rejecting the offer in anger is an example of which behavior?
- Rational utility maximization
- Emotional reactivity overriding economic self-interest (Correct answer)
- High trust in partners
- Accurate empathy
Correct answer: Emotional reactivity overriding economic self-interest
Rejecting a monetary gain due to perceived unfairness shows emotional reactivity winning over logical self-interest, a key insight Pymetrics draws from this game.
Question 3: Which Pymetrics game most directly evaluates your sensitivity to social reward and punishment signals?
- Digit Span game
- Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)
- Arrows game
- Money Exchange / Ultimatum game (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Money Exchange / Ultimatum game
The Money Exchange (Ultimatum) game exposes how you respond to fairness and social reward cues, revealing sensitivity to social punishment when offers feel unfair.
Question 4: An emotionally intelligent response to receiving a low-ball offer in Pymetrics' Trust game is to:
- Always reject to signal dominance
- Accept while planning revenge in later rounds
- Weigh fairness against long-term cooperation gains (Correct answer)
- Send the maximum amount back regardless of context
Correct answer: Weigh fairness against long-term cooperation gains
High EI involves balancing emotional reactions with strategic thinking about long-term relationships and cooperation rather than impulsive acceptance or rejection.
Question 5: In the context of Pymetrics assessments, 'emotional granularity' refers to:
- How fast you react to emotional stimuli
- The ability to make fine-grained distinctions between similar emotions (Correct answer)
- Your tolerance for negative feedback
- How many emotions you can identify on a face
Correct answer: The ability to make fine-grained distinctions between similar emotions
Emotional granularity is the capacity to differentiate between closely related emotions (e.g., frustrated vs. disappointed), which supports more precise emotional regulation.
Question 6: A candidate who consistently over-identifies neutral facial expressions as 'fearful' during Pymetrics likely demonstrates:
- High emotional sensitivity and strong empathy
- A negativity bias in emotional perception (Correct answer)
- Superior emotional intelligence
- Optimal alertness under pressure
Correct answer: A negativity bias in emotional perception
Misidentifying neutral faces as fearful indicates a negativity bias, where the brain is primed to detect threat even when none is present, which can impair accurate emotional reading.
Question 7: Which emotional intelligence competency is most exercised when you choose to delay your response in the Pymetrics Stop game rather than act impulsively?
- Emotional perception
- Social awareness
- Self-regulation / impulse control (Correct answer)
- Empathic accuracy
Correct answer: Self-regulation / impulse control
The Stop game tests inhibitory control—your ability to suppress an automatic response—which maps directly to the self-regulation dimension of emotional intelligence.
Pymetrics Games Emotional Intelligence Assessment 2
In Pymetrics' Faces game, you are shown a series of facial expressions for a brief moment.
What primary emotional trait does this game measure?