ArticleChild development2022
The representation of emotion knowledge across development.
Article in Child development, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- The role of maternal trauma and discipline types in emotional processing among Syrian refugee children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Embodied language of emotions: Predicting human intuitions with linguistic distributions in blind and sighted individuals.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Caregiver speech predicts the emergence of children's emotion vocabulary.Child development · 2023Article
- Somatovisceral influences on emotional development.Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion · 2023Article
- Calculated Feelings: How Children Use Probability to Infer Emotions.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- The increasing instance of negative emotion reduce the performance of emotion recognition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The representation of emotion knowledge across development.Child development · 2022Article
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Abstract
The present study examined how children spontaneously represent facial cues associated with emotion. 106 three- to six-year-old children (48 male, 58 female; 9.4% Asian, 84.0% White, 6.6% more than one race) and 40 adults (10 male, 30 female; 10% Hispanic, 30% Asian, 2.5% Black, 57.5% White) were recruited from a Midwestern city (2019-2020), and sorted emotion cues in a spatial arrangement method that assesses emotion knowledge without reliance on emotion vocabulary. Using supervised and unsupervised analyses, the study found evidence for continuities and gradual changes in children's emotion knowledge compared to adults. Emotion knowledge develops through an incremental learning process in which children change their representations using combinations of factors-particularly valence-that are weighted differently across development.
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