ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Recognition of Authentic Happy and Sad Facial Expressions in Chinese Elementary School Children: Evidence from Behavioral and Eye-Movement Studies.
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- Spatial and Sequential Organization of Gaze During Facial Expression Recognition Tasks.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Accurately discerning the authenticity of facial expressions is crucial for inferring others' psychological states and behavioral intentions, particularly in shaping interpersonal trust dynamics among elementary school children. While existing literature remains inconclusive regarding school-aged children's capability to differentiate between genuine and posed facial expressions, this study employed happy and sad facial stimuli to systematically evaluate their discrimination accuracy. Parallel to behavioral measures, children's gaze patterns during authenticity judgments were recorded using eye-tracking technology. Results revealed that participants demonstrated higher accuracy in identifying genuine versus posed happy expressions, whereas discrimination of sad expressions proved more challenging, especially among lower-grade students. Overall, facial expression recognition accuracy exhibited a positive correlation with grade progression, with visual attention predominantly allocated to the Eye-region. Notably, no grade-dependent differences emerged in region-specific gaze preferences. These findings suggest that school-aged children display emotion-specific recognition competencies, while improvements in accuracy operate independently of gaze strategy development.
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