Social cognition tests measure how people read and respond to social information.
29 tests
Measures how strongly two concepts are linked in memory from how fast people sort words when the concepts share a response key. The default version pairs flowers and insects with pleasant and unpleasant words.
5 to 7 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how accurately people name the emotion a face shows. The faces are emoji from one freely licensed set, shown one at a time, and participants choose happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprised, disgusted or neutral.
4 to 6 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures cooperation over time: in repeated rounds, the participant and a programmed partner each choose to cooperate or defect, where defecting pays more in any one round but mutual cooperation pays more than mutual defection.
3 to 5 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures trust and trustworthiness: the participant sends points to programmed partners, who receive three times the amount, and decides how much to send back when a partner sends to them.
4 to 7 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures cooperation in a group: in each round the participant and three programmed members each put part of 20 points into a project that is multiplied by 1.6 and shared equally.
7 to 10 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures giving: the participant splits an amount between themselves and an anonymous person who has no say in the split.
1 to 3 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures responses to unfair offers: the participant accepts or rejects splits of 10 points offered by programmed partners, where a rejection leaves both with nothing.
3 to 6 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures judgments about causing harm for a greater good. Participants read 10 sacrificial dilemmas, each in a version where the harmful action saves five people and a version where it brings only a minor benefit, and judge whether the action is appropriate. The scenarios are in English.
8 to 10 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Studies responses to being included or left out: the participant tosses a ball with two programmed players, who share the throws or stop throwing to the participant, then estimates the share of throws they got.
3 to 5 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how a person weighs points for themselves against points for another person: six choices along lines of nine splits give an angle in degrees and one of four types.
2 to 4 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how liking for a shape changes after it appears beside a liked or disliked picture. Participants rate abstract shapes, watch each one beside pictures of food, spoiled food or everyday objects, and rate the shapes again. Some pictures show spoiled food.
8 to 10 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how attention follows where a face looks. A line drawing of a face looks left or right, then a letter appears on the side it looks at or on the other side. The gaze does not predict the side, yet responses are usually faster when the letter appears where the face looks.
8 to 10 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how much the value of a gift falls with social distance. Participants imagine a list of the 100 people closest to them and choose between money for themselves alone and $75 for person #N alone, at seven distances from #1 to #100. Adjusting choices give the amount worth as much as each gift, and a hyperbola fitted to those amounts gives the social discount rate k.
3 to 5 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures costly punishment by an unaffected observer: programmed allocators split 100 points with programmed receivers, and the participant may spend points to deduct three times as many from the allocator.
3 to 6 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how well adults keep track of what someone wrongly believes. Participants read short stories in which a person's belief, or a photo, map or sign, goes out of date, and mark one statement after each story as true or false. The main score is percent correct on the belief stories. The stories are in English.
8 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures the pull to approach pleasant words and avoid unpleasant ones. A small figure stands above or below a word, and participants walk it toward the word or away with the arrow keys. In one part they approach pleasant words and in the other unpleasant words; responses are usually faster when the movement matches the word's valence.
7 to 9 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how a brief good or bad picture speeds or slows the judgment of the next one. A prime emoji flashes for 200 ms, and participants then judge a target emoji as good or bad. The main score is the response time difference between mismatched and matched trials.
5 to 6 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how people resolve ambiguous words in research. Participants tap five of six scrambled words to make a sentence that can read as positive or negative, while holding a six-digit number and working against a time limit. The main score is the percent of valid sentences that are negative. The words are in English.
6 to 8 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how people take in positive and negative information about themselves. Participants decide whether each of 48 trait words describes them, then type the words they remember in a recall test they were not told about.
7 to 9 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how strongly plants and buildings are each linked with good from how fast people sort pictures when one of them shares a key with happy faces. Two categories are named in each short block; participants press I for pictures of either and E for anything else.
4 to 6 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures in-group favoritism in groups made from nothing: guesses of dot numbers place a person in one of two groups, then twelve choices share points between a member of each group. Scores are pull scores of the Tajfel matrices.
5 to 7 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how readily people confirm or deny a relation from how fast they answer when a rule asks for the usual relation and when it asks for the reverse. A word (pleasant or unpleasant) and a picture of a fruit or an insect appear with the answers similar and opposite, and the rule switches every block.
8 to 12 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how the feeling left by a brief picture carries over to judgments of an unfamiliar drawing. A happy face, a sad face or a gray square flashes before each drawing, and participants judge whether the drawing is more or less pleasant than average.
4 to 6 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures steps of strategic reasoning. In each round the participant and 9 simulated players pick a number from 0 to 100, and the number closest to two thirds of the average wins points. The main score is the first-round guess, read as steps of reasoning about the others.
4 to 7 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how well people use another person's view to follow instructions. A drawn director, a computer program, asks for objects to be moved on shelves where some slots are hidden from the director; on critical instructions the best fit from the participant's side is an object the director cannot see. The main score is the share of those instructions answered with the wrong object, with a part that has a rule and no director for comparison.
8 to 12 minutes · Desktop, laptop or tablet
Measures honest reporting at the group level. Before each roll of an on-screen die, the participant privately thinks of a number from 1 to 6, then reports whether the die showed it; each match earns points. Chance predicts a match on 1 roll in 6, and the test never learns the number.
4 to 6 minutes · Desktop, tablet or phone
Measures how strongly a category is linked with good or bad from how well people pick out its pictures when they share a response with happy or with sad faces. Participants press the space bar within a deadline for pictures of fruit or insects and of one kind of face, and do nothing for the others.
8 to 10 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how another person's view and one's own interfere. A drawn room shows red dots on its walls and a person facing one wall. Participants check a number against the dots they see, or against the dots the person sees. The main score is the altercentric interference: how much slower one's own judgments are when the person sees fewer dots.
9 to 11 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Measures how often people take points away from a partner who takes points from them, when doing so earns them nothing. The partner is a computer program that follows set rules. Participants earn points by pressing a key 100 times, take a point from the partner with 10 presses, or protect their points with 10 presses.
12 to 13 minutes · Desktop or laptop
Papers that name each test, counted for our test census. Tests counted together share a bar. Counts and grades describe the published research on each task, not ConductCognition's version of it.
Source: ConductCognition test census 0.14.0, counted 31 October 2026 from OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov.
| Test | Papers, 2021 to 2025 | Compared with 2016 to 2020 | Use grade | Evidence grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implicit Association Test (IAT) | 1,497 | Down 3% | A | A |
| Emoji Emotion Recognition | 1,197 | Up 47% | A | B |
| Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma | 865 | Down 2% | B | C |
| Trust Game | 794 | Up 3% | B | C |
| Public Goods Game | 778 | Up 10% | B | C |
| Dictator Game | 771 | Up 8% | B | B |
| Ultimatum Game | 592 | About the same | B | C |
| Moral Dilemma Task | 508 | Up 50% | B | C |
| Ball-Toss Game | 358 | Up 15% | B | C |
| Social Value Orientation | 348 | Up 20% | B | C |
| Evaluative Conditioning Task | 315 | Down 22% | B | C |
| Gaze Cueing Task | 304 | Up 2% | B | C |
| Social Discounting Task | 277 | Down 3% | C | C |
| Third-Party Punishment Game | 256 | Up 72% | C | D |
| False Belief Stories | 253 | Down 22% | C | C |
| Approach-Avoidance Task | 251 | Up 6% | C | C |
| Evaluative Priming | 243 | Down 17% | C | C |
| Scrambled Sentences Test | 148 | Up 49% | C | B |
| Self-Referential Encoding Task | 145 | Up 16% | C | C |
| Brief Implicit Association Test | 143 | Up 5% | C | C |
| Minimal Group Task | 96 | Up 55% | D | D |
| Implicit Relational Assessment Task | 89 | Down 36% | D | C |
| Affect Misattribution Task | 88 | Down 21% | D | C |
| Beauty Contest Game | 63 | Up 11% | D | D |
| Director Task | 54 | Up 20% | D | D |
| Die-Roll Task | 35 | Up 30% | D | D |
| Go/No-Go Association Task | 34 | Down 13% | D | C |
| Dot Perspective Task | 30 | Up 200% | D | D |
| Point Subtraction Aggression Task | 28 | Up 4% | E | C |
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