Measuring providers' verbal and nonverbal emotion recognition ability: Reliability and validity of the Patient Emotion Cue Test (PECT)

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 370-376

  Blanch Hartigan, Danielle ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion cue; Emotion recognition; Methodology; Nonverbal behavior; Patient provider communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT EMOTION CUE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; VALIDITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING;

CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951927914     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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