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Measuring Emotion Recognition Ability

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_4188
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Synonyms

Basic emotions recognition; Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT); Communication of Affect Receiving Ability Test (CARAT); Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy (DANVA); Emotional intelligence; Facial displays and emotion; Gestures and emotion; Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT); Interpersonal sensitivity; Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test (JACBART); Multimodal Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (MERT); Postures and emotion; Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (PONS); Vocal displays and emotion

Definition

Emotion recognition refers in psychology to the attribution of emotional states based on the observation of visual and auditory nonverbal cues.

Description

Emotion recognition refers in psychology to the attribution of emotional states based on the observation of visual and auditory nonverbal cues. Nonverbal cues include facial, vocal, postural, and gestural cues displayed by a sender, that is, a person displaying an emotional reaction. While it is...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of PsychologyUppsala UniversityUppsalaSweden