Penn Emotion Recognition Test.

ER-40

What it measures

Facial emotion identification accuracy across happy, sad, angry, fearful and neutral expressions, balanced for intensity, sex and ethnicity of the poser.

Length and format

40 items. performance, computerised forced choice among five emotion labels, with response latency recorded (behavioral/computerized task)

Language versions

~20 languages; the ER-40 is administered internationally through the Penn CNB

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

Gur, R. C., Sara, R., Hagendoorn, M., Marom, O., Hughett, P., Macy, L., Turner, T., Bajcsy, R., Posner, A., & Gur, R. E. (2002). A method for obtaining 3-dimensional facial expressions and its standardization for use in neurocognitive studies. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 115(2), 137-143.