Distinct emotional abilities converge: Evidence from emotional understanding and emotion recognition through the voice

Thingujam, Nutankumar S.; Laukka, Petri; Elfenbein, Hillary Anger

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2012.02.005

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“…ERA is considered the core component of ability EI that precedes more complex abilities including emotional understanding and the management of one’s own and others’ emotions. MacCann, Pearce, and Roberts (2011), Thingujam, Laukka, and Elfenbein (2012), and Libbrecht and Lievens (2012) found positive correlations of ERA measures with emotional understanding and emotion management, which we expect to replicate here.…”

Section: Gender and Agesupporting

confidence: 66%

The Nomological Network of Emotion Recognition Ability

Schlegel

Fontaine

Scherer

2019

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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Abstract. The ability to recognize other people’s emotions from their face, voice, and body (emotion recognition ability, ERA) is crucial to successful functioning in private and professional life. The Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT; Schlegel, Grandjean, & Scherer, 2014 ) is a new instrument to measure ERA in a more ecologically valid way than previous tests. In this article, we report the results of five studies examining the test’s construct validity with a total N of 1,284. We found that the GERT was highly positively correlated with other performance-based tests measuring ERA and emotional intelligence (EI), as well as with cognitive intelligence. GERT scores were also related to higher self-reported empathy, openness, and neuroticism, and to better social adjustment. Furthermore, higher GERT scores were related to lower anxiety, anger expressivity, and alexithymia. In line with previous findings, women scored higher than men and GERT performance declined with increasing age. Taken together, these results provide considerable evidence for the construct validity of the GERT and for ERA as an adaptive skill that likely facilitates better life outcomes.

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Section: Gender and Agesupporting

confidence: 66%

The Nomological Network of Emotion Recognition Ability

Schlegel

Fontaine

Scherer

2019

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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“…On an empirical level, the convergence between these two narrow abilities of EI has been clearly positive. The Situational Test of Emotion Understanding (STEU) correlates with perception of emotion in tone of voice, with estimates of r = .53 and .31 (MacCann, Pearce, & Roberts, 2011;Thingujam, Laukka, & Elfenbein, 2012).…”

Section: Emotion Perception and Emotion Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A closer look at ability emotional intelligence (EI): What are its component parts, and how do they relate to each other?

Elfenbein

MacCann

2017

Social & Personality Psych

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In this review, we focus on two key questions about the nature of emotional intelligence (EI). First, we consider what the different parts of EI might be, suggesting a taxonomy that builds on the well‐known hierarchical four‐branch model to include six narrow abilities (emotion perception, emotion expression, emotion attention regulation, emotion understanding, emotion regulation of self, and emotion regulation of others). Second, we review evidence for the interrelations between these six narrow abilities. The interrelationships of the EI narrow abilities are a key criterion for viewing EI as a kind of intelligence, rather than a typical way of behaving. Our review concludes that the six narrow abilities comprising EI are all positively interrelated—the component parts of EI converge to form a whole. In addition, the level of interrelationships shows that emotion expression and emotion perception are clearly separate, with weaker evidence for the separation between emotion regulation of self versus emotion regulation of others. Using the older research tradition of emotion recognition (which predates EI), we present a detailed overview of the relationship between emotion perception and other narrow abilities of EI. We conclude that the narrow facets of EI converge with each other, providing one form of evidence to support the validity of EI as a type of intelligence.

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“…We may also utilize our knowledge of others’ emotional expressiveness and experiences to perceptually identify spontaneous emotional displays, thus resulting in a complex amalgamation of emotion knowledge and emotion recognition skills (e.g., Fabes, Eisenberg, Nyman, & Michealieu, 1991). Although these skills are likely intertwined, correlational analyses (Mayer et al, 1999; Mayer, Salovey, Caruso, & Sitarenios, 2003; Perez Rivera & Dunsmore, 2011; Thingujam, Laukka, & Elfenbein, 2012) and tests of factor structure (Barbosa-Leiker, Strand, Mamey, & Downs, 2014; Bassett, Denham, Mincic, & Graling, 2012) support emotion recognition and emotion knowledge as two distinct but moderately related components of emotion understanding.…”

Section: A Model Of Emotion Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This scarcity of measures including both abilities likely contributes to the lack of comprehensive assessment of emotion understanding in empirical studies. It is important to note that some studies do include measures of emotion understanding spanning both abilities (e.g., Mayer et al, 2003; Perez Rivera & Dunsmore, 2011; Thingujam et al, 2012); these studies are arguably more inclusive in their assessment of emotion understanding. However, our review of the literature suggests that most studies rely on measures assessing only one broad ability to represent the construct of emotion understanding.…”

Section: Measuring Emotion Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

EUReKA! A Conceptual Model of Emotion Understanding

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The field of emotion understanding is replete with measures, yet lacks an integrated conceptual organizing structure. To identify and organize skills associated with the recognition and knowledge of emotions, and to highlight the focus of emotion understanding as localized in the self, in specific others, and in generalized others, we introduce the conceptual framework of Emotion Understanding in Recognition and Knowledge Abilities (EUReKA). We then categorize fifty-six existing methods of emotion understanding within this framework to highlight current gaps and future opportunities in assessing emotion understanding across the lifespan. We hope the EUReKA model provides a systematic and integrated framework for conceptualizing and measuring emotion understanding for future research.

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Distinct emotional abilities converge: Evidence from emotional understanding and emotion recognition through the voice

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

The Nomological Network of Emotion Recognition Ability

The Nomological Network of Emotion Recognition Ability

A closer look at ability emotional intelligence (EI): What are its component parts, and how do they relate to each other?

EUReKA! A Conceptual Model of Emotion Understanding

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