<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear face people, </div><div><br></div><div>I'm emailing because we have developed some new facial expression recognition tests that are suitable for measuring individual differences (i.e., valid, reliable, wide range of scores and no ceiling or floor effects). One test measures expression <span style="line-height: 18px; ">perception (an odd-man-out </span><span style="line-height: 18px; ">matching</span><span style="line-height: 18px; "> task in which participants select which one of three faces displays a different expression) and the other one additionally requires explicit identification of the emotion (a </span><span style="line-height: 18px; ">labelling</span><span style="line-height: 18px; "> task in which participants select one of six verbal labels). </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div>The PLoS One paper that describes the development of the tests and associated supplementary material can be downloaded from: <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068126">http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068126</a></div><div><span style="line-height: 18px; ">Please feel free to email me if you'd like the tests or further information. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18px; ">Best wishes, </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 18px; ">Romina</span></div><div><br></div><div><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Citation: </strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Palermo R, O’Connor KB, Davis JM, Irons J, McKone E (2013) New Tests to Measure Individual Differences in Matching and Labelling Facial Expressions of Emotion, and Their Association with Ability to Recognise Vocal Emotions and Facial Identity. PLoS ONE 8(6): e68126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068126</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Abstract:</b></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Although good tests are available for diagnosing clinical impairments in face expression processing, there is a lack of strong tests for assessing “individual differences” – that is, differences in ability between individuals within the typical, nonclinical, range. Here, we develop two new tests, one for expression perception (an odd-man-out </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">matching</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> task in which participants select which one of three faces displays a different expression) and one additionally requiring explicit identification of the emotion (a </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">labelling</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> task in which participants select one of six verbal labels). We demonstrate validity (careful check of individual items, large inversion effects, independence from nonverbal IQ, convergent validity with a previous labelling task), reliability (Cronbach’s alphas of.77 and.76 respectively), and wide individual differences across the typical population. We then demonstrate the usefulness of the tests by addressing theoretical questions regarding the structure of face processing, specifically the extent to which the following processes are common or distinct: (a) perceptual </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">matching</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> and explicit </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">labelling</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> of expression (modest correlation between matching and labelling supported partial independence); (b) judgement of expressions from </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">faces</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> and </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">voices</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> (results argued labelling tasks tap into a multi-modal system, while matching tasks tap distinct perceptual processes); and (c) </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">expression</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> and </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">identity</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> processing (results argued for a common first step of perceptual processing for expression and identity).</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; ">--</div><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; ">Romina Palermo, PhD</div><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; ">Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia</div><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; ">| ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders</div><p style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; "> </p><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; "><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/drrominapalermo/">https://sites.google.com/site/drrominapalermo/</a></div><div style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(108, 108, 108); margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><font color="#6c6c6c" size="2">Follow the CCD Person Perception Node: <a href="https://twitter.com/PersonPercept">https://twitter.com/PersonPercept</a></font></div><div><font color="#6c6c6c" size="2"><br></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>