Geneva Emotion Recognition Test.
GERT
- What it measures
- Emotion recognition ability (multimodal: face + voice + body); recognition of 14 positive/negative emotions
- Length and format
- 83 video clips (full); GERT-S short = 42 items. performance/ability - watch a 1-3 s audiovisual clip, choose 1 of 14 emotion labels; accuracy-scored (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Response labels translated into multiple languages (the stimuli are pseudo-linguistic 'actors' speech', so culture-portable); used across Europe, US, Asia
- 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
- Schlegel, K., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2014). Introducing the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test. Emotion, 14(2), 358-368. https://www.unige.ch/cisa/emotional-competence/home/research-tools/gert
https://www.unige.ch/cisa/emotional-competence/home/research-tools/gert
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