Children's and Adolescent's Use of Context in Judgments of Emotion Intensity.

ABSTRACT: The ability to infer others' emotions is important for social communication. This study examines three key aspects of emotion perception for which relatively little is currently known: (1) the evaluation of the intensity of portrayed emotion, (2) the role of contextual information in the perception of facial configurations, and (3) developmental differences in how children perceive co-occurring facial and contextual information. Two experiments examined developmental effects on the influence of congruent, incongruent, and neutral situational contexts on participants' reasoning about others' emotions, both with and without emotion labels. Experiment 1 revealed that participants interpreted others' emotions to be of higher intensity when facial movements were congruent with contextual inform

SUBMITTER: Leitzke BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11904079 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature