> It assumes American psych undergrads are representative of the entire human race.
(1) Since it can't document an effect in them, it doesn't really matter whether they're representative or not.
> The test of competence was whether you rated jokes and funny or unfunny. To be considered competent your assessments had to match that of a panel of "joke experts" that DK just assembled by hand.
(2) This is a major problem elsewhere. Not just elsewhere in psychology; pretty much everywhere.
There's a standard test of something like "emotional competence" where the testee is shown pictures and asked to identify what emotion the person in the picture is feeling.
But, if you worry about the details of things like this, there is no correct answer. The person in each picture is a trained actor who has been instructed to portray a given emotion. Are they actually feeling that emotion? No.
Would someone else look similar if they were actually feeling that emotion? No. Actors do some standard things that cue you as to what you're supposed to imagine them feeling. People in reality don't. They express their emotions in all kinds of different ways. Any trial lawyer will be happy to talk your ear off about how a jury expects someone who's telling the truth to show a set of particular behaviors, and witnesses just won't do that whether they're telling the truth or not.
> It assumes American psych undergrads are representative of the entire human race.
(1) Since it can't document an effect in them, it doesn't really matter whether they're representative or not.
> The test of competence was whether you rated jokes and funny or unfunny. To be considered competent your assessments had to match that of a panel of "joke experts" that DK just assembled by hand.
(2) This is a major problem elsewhere. Not just elsewhere in psychology; pretty much everywhere.
There's a standard test of something like "emotional competence" where the testee is shown pictures and asked to identify what emotion the person in the picture is feeling.
https://psytests.org/arc/rmeten.html
But, if you worry about the details of things like this, there is no correct answer. The person in each picture is a trained actor who has been instructed to portray a given emotion. Are they actually feeling that emotion? No.
Would someone else look similar if they were actually feeling that emotion? No. Actors do some standard things that cue you as to what you're supposed to imagine them feeling. People in reality don't. They express their emotions in all kinds of different ways. Any trial lawyer will be happy to talk your ear off about how a jury expects someone who's telling the truth to show a set of particular behaviors, and witnesses just won't do that whether they're telling the truth or not.