Your social intelligence

[Jeff the Green]

Maybe the people with social anxiety think more about what other people are thinking than those of us without, and so do better at this sort of test? Just a thought, I've never had that issue myself so don't know how it works.

There's a significant degree of hyper-monitoring others' emotions that, as I speculated upthread, could lead to this, though at least for me I thought I tended to misread others' emotions (leading to paranoia).