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Trial reportDevelopment and psychopathology2017

Effects of early institutionalization on emotion processing in 12-year-old youth.

Johanna Bick, Rhiannon Luyster, Nathan A Fox, Charles H Zeanah, Charles A Nelson

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Development and psychopathology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Positive affect as a developmental mediator of early adversity and internalizing psychopathology.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026
    Article
  3. The Development of Emotion Recognition Skills from Childhood to Adolescence.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025
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  4. Intergenerational Effects of Stress - A Focus on Learning and Memory.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
    Review
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  6. Fundamental Themes in Social-Emotional Learning: A Theoretical Framework for Inclusivity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
    Review
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  8. Facial emotion recognition in adopted children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Johanna BickUniversity of Houston.
Rhiannon LuysterEmerson College.
Nathan A FoxUniversity of Maryland.
Charles H ZeanahTulane University.
Charles A NelsonBoston Children's Hospital.

Funding

The Relation Between Early Psychosocial Deprivation and Mental Health at 12 YearsR01MH091363 · NIMH · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI FOX, NATHAN A, NELSON, CHARLES ALEXANDER · 2010 to 2024
$9.2M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH091363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined facial emotion recognition in 12-year-olds in a longitudinally followed sample of children with and without exposure to early life psychosocial deprivation (institutional care). Half of the institutionally reared children were randomized into foster care homes during the first years of life. Facial emotion recognition was examined in a behavioral task using morphed images. This same task had been administered when children were 8 years old. Neutral facial expressions were morphed with happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional facial expressions, and children were asked to identify the emotion of each face, which varied in intensity. Consistent with our previous report, we show that some areas of emotion processing, involving the recognition of happy and fearful faces, are affected by early deprivation, whereas other areas, involving the recognition of sad and angry faces, appear to be unaffected. We also show that early intervention can have a lasting positive impact, normalizing developmental trajectories of processing negative emotions (fear) into the late childhood/preadolescent period.

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Facial ExpressionInstitutionalizationChildChild, InstitutionalizedEmotionsFacial RecognitionFemaleHumansMale

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PMID29162181
PMCPMC6343656

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