Trial reportPloS one2015
No Own-Age Advantage in Children's Recognition of Emotion on Prototypical Faces of Different Ages.
Trial report in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Familiarity with children improves the ability to recognize children's mental states: an fMRI study using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task and the Nencki Children Eyes Test.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Touching Emotions: How Touch Shapes Facial Emotional Processing Among Adolescents and Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The Development of Emotion Recognition Skills from Childhood to Adolescence.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- No association between alexithymia and emotion recognition or theory of mind in a sample of adolescents enhanced for autistic traits.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- The age bias in labeling facial expressions in children: Effects of intensity and expression.PloS one · 2022Article
- Impaired Recognition of Basic Emotions from Facial Expressions in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Assessing the Importance of Expression Intensity.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Article
- Subjective ratings and emotional recognition of children's facial expressions from the CAFE set.PloS one · 2018Article
- Adolescent Basic Facial Emotion Recognition Is Not Influenced by Puberty or Own-Age Bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Correction: No Own-Age Advantage in Children's Recognition of Emotion on Prototypical Faces of Different Ages.PloS one · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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4 authors.
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Abstract
We test whether there is an own-age advantage in emotion recognition using prototypical younger child, older child and adult faces displaying emotional expressions. Prototypes were created by averaging photographs of individuals from 6 different age and sex categories (male 5-8 years, male 9-12 years, female 5-8 years, female 9-12 years, adult male and adult female), each posing 6 basic emotional expressions. In the study 5-8 year old children (n = 33), 9-13 year old children (n = 70) and adults (n = 92) labelled these expression prototypes in a 6-alternative forced-choice task. There was no evidence that children or adults recognised expressions better on faces from their own age group. Instead, child facial expression prototypes were recognised as accurately as adult expression prototypes by all age groups. This suggests there is no substantial own-age advantage in children's emotion recognition.
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