Emotion Word Comprehension from 4 to 16 Years Old: A Developmental Survey

@anna_westaway @WordAware @Melaniespeechie @LScott2018 https://t.co/5tcW3utWxz

We then published individual trajectories for folks interested in specific "emotions" /"states". Interestingly, comprehension trajectories were quite similar (hitting >90% for all emotions within just a few years), but abstraction trajectories varied wi

@PsychPLockwood @ErinWestgate Totally agreed that what defines an emotion is a topic of hot debate! Our list was inspired by @sbaroncohen's self-report measure of emotion development. They took a very broad approach to emotional/affective terms, so we did

1/ Lovely study from @sbaroncohen et al. investigating the comprehension of emotion words by children aged 4-16 years. Agree with their discussion that this normative data can be used to identify emotional difficulties in clinical populations. Really like