___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R)* *START script* *Mouse or Touch Input* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 09-29-2020 last updated: 04-18-2024 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 04-18-2024 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the START script to run the Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R). The CATS and CATS-R were created by: Sarah G. Schaffer, PhD Karen B. Froming, PhD Amanda L. Gregory, PhD C. Michael Levy, PhD Paul Ekman, PhD Reference for Means and Standard Deviations used to calculate z-scores: Emotion Processing: The Comprehensive Affective Testing System. User Manual. Published 2006 by Psychology Software Inc ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TEST SET UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R) consists of 13 subtests: subtest1: Identity Discrimination subtest2: Affect Discrimination subtest3: Nonemotional Prosody Discrimination subtest4: Emotional Prosody Discrimination subtest5: Name Affect subtest6: Name Emotional Prosody subtest7: Match Affect subtest8: Select Affect subtest9: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Prosody subtest10: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Meaning subtest11: Match Emotional Prosody to Emotional Face subtest12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody subtest 13: 3 Faces Test This START script is a batch script that automatically runs (1) cats_demographics.iqjs: this script collects demographic information (2) the number of subtests selected in the order specified: catsr_subtest1.iqjs - catsr_subtest13.iqjs NOTE: edit the order and/or selection of subtests to run below under the batch-element (3) catsr_summary.iqjs: the final script alerts the user that the end has been reached and calculates all summary variables. See script "catsr_summary.iqjs" for a data glossary. Note: the individual subtests cats_subtest1.iqjs to cats_subtest13.iqjs can be run as single scripts as well. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: