title: Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion.
abstract: Despite the importance of perceiving and recognizing facial expressions in everyday life, there is no comprehensive test battery for the multivariate assessment of these abilities. As a first step toward such a compilation, we present 16 tasks that measure the perception and recognition of facial emotion expressions, and data illustrating each task's difficulty and reliability. The scoring of these tasks focuses on either the speed or accuracy of performance. A sample of 269 healthy young adults completed all tasks. In general, accuracy and reaction time measures for emotion-general scores showed acceptable and high estimates of internal consistency and factor reliability. Emotion-specific scores yielded lower reliabilities, yet high enough to encourage further studies with such measures. Analyses of task difficulty revealed that all tasks are suitable for measuring emotion perception and emotion recognition related abilities in normal populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Wilhelm
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hildebrandt
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ulm University Ulm, Germany.
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Manske
authors.affiliation: CRC Text Structures, University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Annekathrin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schacht
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Werner
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sommer
keywords: emotion perception; emotion recognition; facial expression; individual differences; psychometrics