Emotion Recognition Assessment in Multiple Modalities (Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test).

ERAM / MERT

What it measures

Emotion recognition ability across modalities - face (still + video), voice, and combined audiovisual; recognition of a set of positive/negative emotions

Length and format

~24-72 items depending on version (MERT 30+ clips; ERAM modality blocks). performance/ability - view/hear a stimulus, choose the emotion label; accuracy-scored (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Response labels translated into multiple languages; stimuli are largely culture-portable (GEMEP actor portrayals)

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

Banziger, T., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2009). Emotion recognition from expressions in face, voice, and body: The Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT). Emotion, 9(5), 691-704. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017088

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017088