Concurrent validity studies of the facial discrimination task

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 203-215

  Rojahn, Johannes ^a   Singh, Nirbhay N ^b   Singh, Subhashni D ^b   Baker, Jeri A ^c   Lawrence, Melissa A ^d   Davis, Charles M ^e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Central State Hospital Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrent validity; Facial Discrimination Task (FDT); Facial emotion recognition; Pictures of Facial Affect (PFA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748999618     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015129726221     Document Type: Article

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