Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity.

PONS

What it measures

Accuracy in decoding nonverbal affective cues across channels: face, body, content-filtered speech, randomised-spliced speech, and their combinations.

Length and format

220 two-second segments. performance, forced-choice between two situation descriptions per segment (performance/ability test)

Language versions

Administered in ~20 countries in the original normative programme; the stimulus is a single US encoder, which is exactly the limitation later tests were built to address

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

Rosenthal, R., Hall, J. A., DiMatteo, M. R., Rogers, P. L., & Archer, D. (1979). Sensitivity to Nonverbal Communication: The PONS Test. Johns Hopkins University Press.