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  • Psychometrics

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  • Digital alteration of facial expressions in emotion recognition tasks lacks validated psychometric properties.
  • Existing tasks often do not account for varying expression intensities, limiting their utility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate the Graded Emotional Face Task (GEFT) for assessing facial emotion recognition (FER) at different intensity levels.
  • To examine the psychometric properties of digitally altered facial expressions used in FER research.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the GEFT with five intensity levels for six emotions, digitally altering facial expressions.
  • Utilized an item selection algorithm to optimize internal consistency and balance demographics.
  • Validated the GEFT using a multimethod battery and assessed its performance in a sample oversampled for borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Main Results:

  • Broad FER scales demonstrated good reliability and validity.
  • Specific subscales (e.g., 40% anger) exhibited more variable psychometric properties.
  • Ceiling and floor effects were observed, potentially reducing internal consistency and external validity.

Conclusions:

  • The GEFT offers a validated tool for FER research, particularly for broad emotion categories.
  • Measurement challenges exist for fine-grained intensity levels in FER tasks.
  • Findings highlight the importance of addressing psychometric properties in social cognition research.