1. Using the DANVA 2 & the NEPSY-II
Measuring
Social Perception
Using the DANVA 2
& the NEPSY-II

2. The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2
DANVA 2
The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2
(Copyright Dyssemia, Inc. 1999–2000)

5. DANVA 2 Description
PURPOSE: To measure a person’s competence in affect recognition by reading facial expressions and voice tones.
Includes 4 subtests:
(1) Child Faces 2; (2) Adult faces 2
(3) Child Paralanguage 2; (4) Adult Paralanguage 2
Four basic emotions are included:
happiness, sadness, anger, fear
Two levels of emotional intensity are included:
High & Low.
Both males and females are included in all subtest stimuli.

6. DANVA 2 - Child Faces 2 Test Construction:
Includes 24 photographs of child facial expressions
Internal Consistency:
coefficent alpha ranged from .69 to .81 with a modal alpha of .76 across 10 studies with children aged 4 – 16.
Test-Retest Reliability:
r = .74, n = 84, for 3rd grade children.

7. DANVA 2 - Child Faces 2 Discriminative Validity:
DANVA2-CF scores have not been found to be related to IQ scores or tests of general cognitive ability in a number of studies.
Criterion-Related Validity:
Lower accuracy scores were significantly correlated with lower social competence in elementary students.
Lower scores in elementary students are associated with greater external control expectancies, greater depression in boys, lower self-esteem in girls, difficulties with teachers, and psychopathy in boys.

8. DANVA 2 Opening Screen

9. DANVA 2 Main Menu

10. DANVA 2 Child Faces Menu

11. DANVA 2 Child Faces Subtest
Clients are given 4 seconds to view each photo, which then disappears. Then, they choose the emotion they think the picture shows. Once ready, they click the next button.
What is the emotion?

12. DANVA 2 Child Faces Subtest
What is the emotion?

13. DANVA 2 Child Faces Subtest
What is the emotion?

14. DANVA 2 Child Faces Subtest
What is the emotion?

15. “I’m going out of the room now,
Paralanguage Subtest
“I’m going out of the room now,
but I’ll be back later.”

16. DANVA 2 Client Results

17. DANVA 2 Data: Child Faces

18. Table 1: Total Errors; per Affect; per Intensity

19. Table 2: Affect Errors x Intensity

20. TABLE 3: Affect Errors x Type of Affect

21. TABLE 4: Affect Errors x Affect x Intensity

22. DANVA 2 Report Print Out

23. DANVA 2 Norms (Ages 5-18)

24. CASE Study: Eron Profile: Age 7 – 11
profile: Processing Speed (79) and Perceptual Reasoning (61) > Verbal Comprehension (27) and Auditory Working Memory (21)
5 out of 12 atypical indices on the CPT-II
Possible DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of ADHD-NOS
Referred because of playground aggression, and difficulty understanding his emotions & those of others. Noncompliant during counselling efforts.

25. CASE Study: Eron

26. CASE Study: Eron

27. Incorrect Interpretation
CASE Study: Eron
ADULT FACES:
Emotion
Presented
Incorrect Interpretation %
of Errors
Happy
sad 7 --
Sad
angry 27
Angry
happy 20 13
Fearful

28. Incorrect Interpretation
CASE Study: Eron
CHILD FACES:
Emotion
Presented
Incorrect Interpretation %
of Errors
Incorrect
Interpretation
Happy --
Sad
happy 18
Angry
fearful
Fearful
sad
angry 9

29. Social Perception Battery
NEPSY-II
Social Perception Battery

30. NEPSY-II Description This assesses two main areas:
1. Affect Recognition:
discriminating happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral from children’s facial expressions
2. Theory of Mind:
inferring others’ perspectives (e.g., belief, intention, deception, emotion, imagination, and pretending), and relating emotions to the social context

31. NEPSY-II Social Perception
Reliability:
Internal Consistency:
Ages 7-12 = .87 for Affect Recognition; none reported for Theory of Mind in this age group.
Test-Retest:
Ages 7:0-8:11 = .60 for Affect Recognition
Validity:
Concurrent:
AR Total with WISC-IV Comprehension = .30
AR Total with WNV Picture Arrangement = .05
AR Total with DSMD Conduct Problems = -.45
Clinical Groups:
AR Total sig. differentiated Autism from control group (1.19), but not Asperger’s individuals from control group (.19).

32. NEPSY-II Affect Recognition

33. NEPSY-II Theory of Mind

34. CASE Study: Eron Affect Recognition:
NEPSY-II Social Perception
Affect Recognition:
When trying to discriminate happy, sad, anger, fear, discussed, and neutral from children’s facial expressions, he obtained a scaled score of 4, at the 2nd percentile.
Interpreted fear as happiness (6th – 10th %ile)
Theory of Mind:
When trying to infer others’ perspectives (e.g., belief, intention, deception, emotion, imagination, and pretending), and relate emotions to social context, Eron obtained a score within the Average range (51-75 %ile).

35. CASE Study: Eron Recommendations:
Eron should receive individual counselling to improve his ability to identify facial expressions of various emotions in children and adults. Start with teaching him to correctly identify the facial expressions of anger and fear.
A useful tool for teaching affect recognition is a DVD program called ‘Mind Reading.’ The DVD consists of 3 areas: (1) the Emotions Library, (2) The Learning Center, and (3) the Games Zone. Using the software, you can explore up to 412 emotions, seeing and hearing each one performed by six different people, including children and adults of both gender.
Adults working with Eron should always verbalize how they feel, and not communicate through facial expression alone. He may misperceive adult facial expressions of happy, sad, and angry.