Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2.
DANVA2
- What it measures
- Nonverbal receptivity / emotion recognition accuracy across channels: adult + child faces, paralanguage/voices, postures, gestures (happy, sad, angry, fearful)
- Length and format
- 24 per subtest (e.g. Adult Facial Expressions = 24 photos); multiple subtests combined. performance/ability - identify the emotion (forced choice among 4 emotions); accuracy-scored (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Used cross-culturally; facial/vocal stimuli adapted and validated in multiple countries (the visual stimuli are largely language-free)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Nowicki, S., & Duke, M. P. (1994). Individual differences in the nonverbal communication of affect: The DANVA. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 18, 9-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02169077
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