Reliability and validity studies of the Facial Discrimination Task for emotion research

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-181

  Rojahn, Johannes ^a   Gerhards, Friedemann ^b   Matlock, Scott T ^a   Kroeger, Tracy L ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion perception; Emotion recognition; Facial expression; Facial recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034698709     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(00)00169-4     Document Type: Article

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