Two tests were developed for measuring racket feelings and emotion recognition. These tests, along with an intelligence test, were administered to 142 subjects ages 11–14. The results indicate that the ability to accurately recognize emotions is positively related to general intelligence, and in the case of certain racket feelings, a perceptual distortion toward these feelings is present in emotion recognition tasks.
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