Table 2.
Candidate Measures Selected for Evaluation by the RAND Panel
| Measure | SCOPE Domain of Social Cognition | Original Citation | Total Citations | Citations Per Year | Total Useable Articles | Number of Expert Nominations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ) | Attributional style/bias | Combs et al54 | 35 | 7 | 12 | 4 |
| Internal, Personal, and Situational Attributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ) | Attributional style/bias | Kinderman and Bentall55 | 109 | 6.81 | 15 | 2 |
| Bell Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task (BLERT) | Emotion processing | Bryson et al56 | 110 | 7.33 | 12 | 5 |
| Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2 (DANVA2) | Emotion processing | Nowicki and Duke57 | 331 | 18.56 | 10 | 2 |
| Face Emotion Discrimination Test (FEDT) | Emotion processing | Kerr and Neale58 | 310 | 16.32 | 24 | 2 |
| Penn Emotion Recognition Task (ER-40) | Emotion processing | Kohler et al59 | 276 | 30.6 | 15 | 10 |
| Half Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity (Half PONS) | Social perception | Ambady et al60 | 239 | 14.06 | 11 | 3 |
| Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT-15) | Social perception | Costanzo and Archer61 | 178 | 7.74 | 16 | 3 |
| Relationships Across Domains (RAD) | Social perception | Sergi et al62 | 4 | 1.33 | 3 | 1 |
| Adult Faux Pas | ToM | Stone et al63 | 676 | 48.29 | 17 | 4 |
| Brune Picture Sequencing Task | ToM | Brune64 | 110 | 12.22 | 13 | 3 |
| Happe’s Stories | ToM | Happe65 | 820 | 43.94 | 8 | 5 |
| Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test | ToM | Baron-Cohen et al66 | 1037 | 94.27 | 18 | 13 |
| Silent Animations | ToM | Castelli et al67 | 708 | 70.8 | 14 | 5 |
| The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) | ToM | McDonald et al68 | 94 | 10.44 | 11 | 11 |
| The Hinting Task | ToM | Corcoran et al69 | 512 | 30.12 | 33 | 10 |
| Visual Perspective Tasking Task | ToM | Langdon and Coltheart70 | 79 | 7.18 | 2 | 2 |
| Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) | Novel | Payne et al71 | 297 | 42.43 | 4 | 1 |
| Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) | Novel | Dziobek et al72 | 62 | 10.33 | 12 | 6 |
| Need for Closure Scale | Novel | Webster and Kruglanski73 | 825 | 45.83 | 9 | 2 |
| Trustworthiness Task | Novel | Adolphs et al74 | 904 | 64.57 | 10 | 2 |
Note: The citation provided for the ER-40 is the most widely used, and first, citation for the measure; however, the task utilized in this study was an expanded version that included 96 stimuli. The first time the ER-40 was published in its current form was Kohler et al.75 Likewise, the citation provided for the Interpersonal Perception Task refers to the full task of 30 items. The original citation for the 15-item version is Costanzo and Archer.76 SCOPE, Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation.