A review of emotion recognition and expression measures

Abstract

A systematic review was carried out with the objective of learning the Psychometric properties of measures of emotion recognition and expression. They were selected in two steps: first, a deductive one in which 721 abstracts from Scopus and PsycInfo were analyzed; and second, the inductive one, by using the ad hoc categories from the previous analysis. The instruments from the 36 selected papers were coded by sample, assessment type, and psychometric analyses. Results show that most of the measures come from just one test and that modern test models such as Rasch-based ones are never found. It is concluded that Affective Neuropsychology advances have not been accompanied by the construction of standardized measurement instruments to properly quantify individual differences.