Table 2 Top Ranked Tasks for Cross-Cultural Use from Delphi Round 3.

From: Harmonizing cross-cultural and transdiagnostic assessment of social cognition by expert panel consensus

Task

Number of Selections

Weighted Mean Rank

Suitability Rating

Emotion Processing

 Penn Emotion Recognition Test (ER-40)

14

2.89 (1.38)

6.23 (1.42)

 Emotion in Biological Motion

12

1.83 (1.60)

6.82 (1.47)

 Bell-Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task (BLERT)

9

1.50 (1.58)

5.11 (2.03)

 Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)a

4

0.89 (1.16)

7.33 (0.58)

 Dynamic Virtual Faces (DVFs)

6

0.89 (1.21)

6.20 (1.92)

 Levels of Emotional Awareness

4

0.89 (1.41)

5.33 (2.52)

Social Perception

 Observable Social Cognition Task (OSCARS)a

13

2.72 (1.48)

5.15 (1.99)

 Social Perception and Interaction Database (SoPID)a

10

2.33 (0.79)

6.00 (0.94)

 Mini-Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (Mini-PONS)

11

2.22 (1.69)

5.91 (2.12)

 Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT)

11

1.89 (1.22)

5.27 (1.56)

 The Social Knowledge Test (SKT)

8

1.33 (1.20)

5.13 (1.73)

 Social Norms Questionnaire

5

0.72 (1.14)

4.40 (1.67)

Mental State Attribution

 Social Attribution Task – Multiple Choice (SAT-MC)

7

1.56 (1.16)

7.29 (1.25)

 The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)

10

1.50 (1.25)

4.80 (1.93)

 Triangles Task/ Frith-Happé Animations Testb

6

1.44 (1.21)

6.67 (0.82)

 False Belief Theory of Mind Stories

6

1.11 (0.82)

6.00 (1.55)

 Observable Social Cognition Task (OSCARS)a

4

1.00 (1.00)

5.00 (2.16)

 Hinting Task

6

0.94 (1.60)

4.00 (1.67)

Attributional Style

 Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ)

15

3.56 (0.88)

5.13 (2.10)

 Internal, Personal, and Situational Attributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ)a

11

2.67 (0.81)

5.73 (2.24)

 Intentionality Bias Task (IBT)a

13

2.33 (1.09)

5.08 (2.22)

 Observable Social Cognition Task (OSCARS)

9

1.61 (0.97)

5.00 (2.06)

Empathy

 Empathic Accuracy Task

11

2.33 (1.40)

4.91 (2.02)

 Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE)

12

2.22 (1.56)

5.33 (1.78)

 Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)a

9

1.83 (1.23)

4.67 (1.67)

 Multi-faceted Empathy Test (MET)

8

1.61 (1.30)

5.63 (1.50)

 Empathy Test

7

1.33 (1.40)

5.71 (1.60)

 Emotional Perspective Tasking Task (EPTT)

6

0.89 (1.37)

6.50 (1.64)

  1. The top six ranked tasks from each social cognitive domain are listed. As the domain of Attributional Style included only four tasks, all are listed. Suitability ratings are on a scale from 1–9 (1 = poor, 3 = fair, 5 = good, 7 = very good, 9 = superb).
  2. aDenotes tasks for which consensus was not reached on Round 1 and mean quality ratings dropped below 2 at Round 2.
  3. bDenotes tasks for which consensus was not reached in either Round 1 or 2.
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