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Normal adult and adolescent performance on TASIT-S, a short version of The Assessment of Social Inference Test

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McDonald, Skye, Honan, Cynthia, Allen, Samantha K., El-Helou, Rebecca, Kelly, Michelle, Kumfor, Fiona, Piguet, Olivier, Hazelton, Jessica L. +2 more·2018·The Clinical Neuropsychologist
DOI 10.1080/13854046.2017.1400106
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There is a need for short, reliable, sensitive assessment tools to measure social cognition. The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) is an ecologically valid instrument that uses videos of actors engaged in everyday conversations to assess emotion perception, the ability to detect lies, sarcasm and sincerity, and the ability to judge what others are thinking, intending, feeling, and saying. A recently developed short version of TASIT retains the structure of the original test and its clinical sensitivity. In this paper, we compare TASIT-S performance in healthy adolescents, adults, and older adults as well as the effects of country (U.S.A. and Australia), English familiarity and gender. In this study 616 Australians including 226 adolescents (13-19) and 390 adults aged 20-75 + along with 180 U.S. residents (aged 20-74) completed one, two, or three parts of TASIT-S either face to face (Australians) or on-line (US residents). Results indicated that there were minor differences in TASIT-S performance (Part 3 only) based on country of residence and no significant effects for English familiarity in adolescents (not examined in adults). There were no gender effects. Young and middle aged adults (20-59) tended to perform better than adolescents and older adults on most parts of TASIT-S. In general, TASIT-S scores decreased moderately with advancing age. In conclusion, TASIT-S is a useful screen for social cognitive impairment in English speakers that is appropriate for use from adolescence through to older age. It produces comparable scores in the U.S.A. and Australia.

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  • Several social cognitive instruments that have been developed for research purposes are yet to have normative data available.

    “Unfortunately, several social cognitive instruments that have been developed for research purposes are yet to have normative data available (see TASIT-S, which has been validated in bvFTD and Alzheimer's disease) (Kumfor et al. , 2017 b ; McDonald et al. , 2018).”

    From Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders (2020) · cites this paper as McDonald et al. , 2018

    The Introduction (page unavailable) says the Video Social Inference Test awaits normative data, supporting the point for one social-cognition instrument. The available passages do not establish that several instruments lack norms or that TASIT-S does; they instead report normative data for TASIT, which is not identified as TASIT-S. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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McDonald, S., Honan, C., Allen, S. K., El-Helou, R., Kelly, M., Kumfor, F., Piguet, O., Hazelton, J. L., Padgett, C., & Keage, H. A. D.
Affiliations
  • UNSW Sydney (AU)
  • University of Tasmania (AU)
  • University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • University of South Australia (AU)
Corresponding author
McDonald, Skye
ORCID
Venue
The Clinical Neuropsychologist
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-11-13
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
700-719
ISSN
  • 0920-1637 (ISSN-L)
  • 1385-4046
  • 1744-4144
DOI
10.1080/13854046.2017.1400106
OpenAlex
W2768368815
Cited by
24
References
69
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0.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • The Clinical Neuropsychologist (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
  • UTAS Research Repository (submittedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australian Research Council (CE11000102)
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (PG1081923, APP1103258, APP1023043, APP1037746, APP1097016, CRE1023043)
  • NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship (APP1097026)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical and Modern Theater Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
Keywords
social cognition, emotion perception, deception detection, sarcasm, theory of mind, age differences, adolescents, older adults, cross-cultural comparison, gender differences
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Young Adult

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