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 ...
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.
