Open AccessAssessment of hemispheric asymmetry: Development and psychometric evaluation of a chimeric face test
Author(s) -
Garima Gupta,
Rakesh Pandey
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.77632
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , psychology , context (archaeology) , face validity , facial expression , asymmetry , cognitive psychology , face (sociological concept) , consistency (knowledge bases) , reliability (semiconductor) , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , computer science , artificial intelligence , communication , biology , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , power (physics)
Anomaly in hemispheric functioning has been linked with various psychiatric conditions. However, most of the procedures used to assess hemispheric asymmetry in clinical population require special training and/or complex procedures and some of the measures suffer from such methodological problems that undermine their utility for clinical use. Further, the available economical procedures such as chimeric face test (CFT) utilize facial expression of emotions posed by western expressers and are therefore less valid measures in Indian context.