Children's prototypic facial expressions during emotion-eliciting conversations with their mothers.

ABSTRACT: Despite theoretical claims that emotions are primarily communicated through prototypic facial expressions, empirical evidence is surprisingly scarce. This study aimed to (a) test whether children produced more components of a prototypic emotional facial expression during situations judged or self-reported to involve the corresponding emotion than situations involving other emotions (termed "intersituational specificity"), (b) test whether children produced more components of the prototypic expression corresponding to a situation's judged or self-reported emotion than components of other emotional expressions (termed "intrasituational specificity"), and (c) examine coherence between children's self-reported emotional experience and observers' judgments of children's emotions. One hundred an

SUBMITTER: Castro VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5771990 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature