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Neuropsychology and cognitive screening

The Awareness of Social Inference Test.

TASIT

What it measures
Social cognition / social perception; emotion recognition from dynamic faces, and comprehension of sincere vs sarcastic exchanges and lies (theory of mind, paralinguistic inference)
Length and format
3 parts: Emotion Evaluation Test (EET, dynamic clips of 6 basic emotions + neutral), Social Inference-Minimal (SI-M, sincere vs sarcastic), Social Inference-Enriched (SI-E, lies vs sarcasm); alternate forms. TASIT-S short = EET 10 + SI-M 9 + SI-E 9. audiovisual (video) vignettes; examinee answers structured do/say/think/feel questions (performance), correct-response scores per part (performance/ability test)
Language versions
English original (AU/US); adaptations incl. Spanish, French, Dutch, Korean and others (videos re-shot/subtitled per language)
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 - commercial

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Reference
McDonald S, Flanagan S, Rollins J, Kinch J. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2003;84(11):1648-1655 (TASIT validity). Distributed via Pearson Clinical Australia / ASSBI Resources.

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