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| Title |
A facial expression of pax: Assessing children’s “recognition” of emotion from faces
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.07.016 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nicole L. Nelson, James A. Russell |
| Abstract |
In a classic study, children were shown an array of facial expressions and asked to choose the person who expressed a specific emotion. Children were later asked to name the emotion in the face with any label they wanted. Subsequent research often relied on the same two tasks-choice from array and free labeling-to support the conclusion that children recognize basic emotions from facial expressions. Here five studies (N=120, 2- to 10-year-olds) showed that these two tasks produce illusory recognition; a novel nonsense facial expression was included in the array. Children "recognized" a nonsense emotion (pax or tolen) and two familiar emotions (fear and jealousy) from the same nonsense face. Children likely used a process of elimination; they paired the unknown facial expression with a label given in the choice-from-array task and, after just two trials, freely labeled the new facial expression with the new label. These data indicate that past studies using this method may have overestimated children's expression knowledge. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
| Professor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 17% |
| Unknown | 21 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 44 | 51% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 3% |
| Linguistics | 2 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Unknown | 26 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
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