The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)
SCREENS FOR: Social perception and social skills.
AGE GROUP: 14–60 years
LENGTH OF TIME TO ADMINISTER: 30–45 minutes
PUBLISHED: 2002
AUTHORS: Skye McDonald, Sharon Flanagan, Jennifer Rollins
The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) provides a systematic examination of social perception for many clinical conditions, including traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, autism, and learning disabilities.
The TASIT assesses poor understanding of emotional expressions and difficulty integrating the contextual information that is part of normal social encounters. It uses videotaped vignettes and standardised response probes based upon recent theoretical accounts of how social cues provide meaning.
TASIT has three sections assessing different components of social perception, each of which take 10 to 15 minutes to view. Statistically equivalent alternate forms are available for retesting.