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Building emotion categories: Children use a process of elimination when they encounter novel expressions

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Title
Building emotion categories: Children use a process of elimination when they encounter novel expressions
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, May 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.02.012
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Nicole L. Nelson, James A. Russell

Abstract

Recent research has indicated that language provides an important contribution to adults' conceptions of emotional expressions and their associated categories, but how language influences children's expression category acquisition has yet to be explored. Across two studies, we provide evidence that when preschoolers (2-4years) encounter a novel label, they use a process of elimination to match it with its expected expression. Children successfully used a process of elimination to match a single expression to one of several labels (Study 1) and to match a single label to one of several expressions (Study 2). These data highlight one possible mechanism that children may use to learn about the expressions they encounter and may shed light on the ways in which children's expression categories are constructed.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 50 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 20%
Student > Master 8 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 11 22%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 47%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 8%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Linguistics 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 12 24%
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