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Abstract

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Objective:

Our pri mary ob jec tive was to cre ate and vali date the So cial Cue Rec og ni tion Test-C (SCRT-C), a Ca na dian test com pa ra ble with the origi nal SCRT.

Method:

We ad min is tered the SCRT-C and the origi nal SCRT to 111 nor mal un der graduate stu dents.

Results:

In our sam ple, the re li abil ity and va lid ity of the SCRT-C were mod er ately high and simi lar to those found with Cor rigan's SCRT. The re sults also sug gest that the Eng lish and French ver sions of the Ca na dian SCRT are equiva lent.

Conclusions:

The SCRT-C is an ap pro pri ate in stru ment for as sess ing so cial cue rec og n ition in emo tional con texts.

Keywords

Social Cue Recognition Test emotion social cue recognition schizophrenia

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Validation of French- and English-Canadian Versions of the Social Cue Recognition Test

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