Emotion Recognition From Expressions in Face, Voice, and Body: The Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT)

被引:248
作者
Baenziger, Tanja [1 ]
Grandjean, Didier [1 ]
Scherer, Klaus R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Geneva, Swiss Ctr Affect Sci, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
关键词
emotion recognition; emotional intelligence; test; multimodal; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; INTELLIGENCE; MATSUMOTO; ACCURACY; JAPANESE;
D O I
10.1037/a0017088
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Emotion recognition ability has been identified as a central component of emotional competence. We describe the development of an instrument that objectively measures this ability on the basis of actor portrayals of dynamic expressions of 10 emotions (2 variants each for 5 emotion families), operationalized as recognition accuracy in 4 presentation modes combining the visual and auditory sense modalities (audio/video, audio only, video only, still picture). Data from a large validation study, including construct validation using related tests (Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity; Rosenthal, Hall, DiMatteo, Rogers, & Archer, 1979; Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion; Biehl et al, 1997; Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy; Nowicki & Duke, 1994 Emotion Recognition Index; Scherer & Scherer, 2008), are reported. The results show the utility of a test designed to measure both coarse and fine-grained emotion differentiation and modality-specific skills. Factor analysis of the data suggests 2 separate abilities, visual and auditory recognition, which seem to be largely independent of personality dispositions.
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页码:691 / 704
页数:14
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