Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Created: September 29, 2020
Last Modified: December 02, 2025 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond
Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC
This script implements the START script to run subtest 1, 2, and 8 of 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
Cats 1: Identity Discrimination
Cats 2: Affective Discrimination
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
The Polish version runs subtest1, 2, and 8 only (and in that order)
The Comprehensive Affective Testing System - Reduced (CATS-R) consists of 13 subtests:
CATS 1: Identity Discrimination
CATS 2: Affect Discrimination
CATS 3: Nonemotional Prosody Discrimination
CATS 4: Emotional Prosody Discrimination
CATS 5: Name Affect
CATS 6: Name Emotional Prosody
CATS 7: Match Affect
CATS 8: Select Affect
CATS 9: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Prosody
CATS 10: Conflicting Prosody - Attend to Meaning
CATS 11: Match Emotional Prosody to Emotional Face
CATS 12: Match Emotional Face to Emotional Prosody
CATS 13: 3 Faces Test
The Polish version runs subtest1, 2, and 8 only (and in that order)
This START script is a batch script that automatically runs
(1) cats_taskselection.iqjs: this script collects demographic information
(2) a batch of the three Polish subtests
the individual subtests cats_subtest1_polish.iqjs to cats_subtest8_polish.iqjs can be run
as single scripts as well.