Open AccessIt Works Without Words
Author(s) -
Gerhard Blickle,
Iris Kranefeld,
Andreas Wihler,
Bastian P. Kückelhaus,
Jochen I. Menges
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european journal of psychological assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.927
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2151-2426
pISSN - 1015-5759
DOI - 10.1027/1015-5759/a000656
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , cognition , matching (statistics) , big five personality traits , emotional intelligence , social psychology , face (sociological concept) , cognitive psychology , face validity , personality , applied psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , linguistics , paleontology , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , biology
. Emotion recognition ability of emotions expressed by other people (ERA-O) can be important for job performance, leadership, bargaining, and career success. Traditional personnel assessment tools of this ability, however, are contaminated by linguistic skills. In a time of global work migration, more and more people speak a language at work that is not their mother tongue. Consequently, we developed and validated the Face-Based Emotion Matching Test (FEMT), a nonlinguistic objective test of ERA-O in gainfully employed adults. We demonstrate the FEMT’s validity with psychological constructs (cognitive and emotional intelligence, Big Five personality traits) and its criterion validity and interethnic fit.