Performance of healthy subjects on an ecologically valid test for social cognition: The short, Dutch Version of The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)

Abstract

The present paper addresses the psychometric quality of the shortened Dutch version of The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT), a social cognition task comprising dynamic social interactions. Because the original TASIT required a rather long administration time, two shortened parallel forms were developed. Results showed that TASIT–short was feasible and that the two alternate forms were reasonably comparable in a group of neurologically healthy individuals (N = 98). Also, the results confirmed the ecological validity of TASIT–short in this healthy group. The test appeared sensitive to brain injury as it differentiated between the healthy subjects and a group of patients with acquired brain injury (N = 16). On the basis of the present study we conclude that TASIT–short has added value to the assessment of social cognition in patients with acquired brain injury.

Keywords:

• Social cognition
• Emotion recognition
• Social inferences
• Brain injury
• Assessment

This work was supported by the Dutch Brain Foundation [grant number F2008-1-18] (https://www.hersenstichting.nl/).