LEM, a validated cartoon character that expresses 8 emotions Why
work with a cartoon character? The LEMtool has been developed to
depict emotions in the clearest, most recognizable way. In order
to achieve this, LEM – a cartoon character, has been developed
that shows eight caricatured expressions of emotions3. Facial
caricaturing (reduction of facial information redundant to the
expression and exaggeration of the essential components) has
been found to enhance the recognizability of emotions. Why not
add the words to explain the expression? We deliberately do not
explain which emotions are expressed by the character. This
‘non-verbal approach’ actually adds reliability to the tests.
Often, people are feeling similar emotions, but refer to it with
different words. With our scientifically validated cartoon
characters you surpass the verbal word-significance discussion.
A great benefit of this approach is that it can be used cross-
culturally: Between cultures, there are tons of small
differences between words t