Trial reportDevelopmental science2015
Effects of early institutionalization on the development of emotion processing: a case for relative sparing?
Trial report in Developmental science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of early institutionalization on emotion processing in 12-year-old youth.Development and psychopathology · 2017Trial
- The effects of early institutionalization on emotional face processing: evidence for sparing via an experience-dependent mechanism.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2017Trial
- The Development of Emotion Recognition Skills from Childhood to Adolescence.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Emotion understanding among institutionalized preschool children in India: A visual-based approach.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Combined predisposed preferences for colour and biological motion make robust development of social attachment through imprinting.Animal cognition · 2020Article
- How Early Experience Shapes Human Development: The Case of Psychosocial Deprivation.Neural plasticity · 2019Review
- Recognition of facial emotions of varying intensities by three-year-olds.Developmental psychology · 2018Article
- Effects of Early Neglect Experience on Recognition and Processing of Facial Expressions: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2018Review
- Maltreatment and Emotion Recognition Among Brazilian Adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
We tested the capacity to perceive visual expressions of emotion, and to use those expressions as guides to social decisions, in three groups of 8- to 10-year-old Romanian children: children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to remain in 'care as usual' (institutional care); children abandoned to institutions then randomly assigned to a foster care intervention; and community children who had never been institutionalized. Experiment 1 examined children's recognition of happy, sad, fearful, and angry facial expressions that varied in intensity. Children assigned to institutional care had higher thresholds for identifying happy expressions than foster care or community children, but did not differ in their thresholds for identifying the other facial expressions. Moreover, the error rates of the three groups of children were the same for all of the facial expressions. Experiment 2 examined children's ability to use facial expressions of emotion to guide social decisions about whom to befriend and whom to help. Children assigned to institutional care were less accurate than foster care or community children at deciding whom to befriend; however, the groups did not differ in their ability to decide whom to help. Overall, although there were group differences in some abilities, all three groups of children performed well across tasks. The results are discussed in the context of theoretical accounts of the development of emotion processing.
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