Youths' processing of emotion information: Responses to chronic and video-based laboratory stress.

ABSTRACT: Integrating multiple sources of information about others' emotional states is critical to making accurate emotional inferences. There is evidence that both acute and chronic stress influence how individuals perceive emotional information. However, there is little research examining how acute and chronic stress interact to impact these processes. The current study examined whether acute and chronic stress interact to influence how children make emotional inferences. Eighty-nine youths (aged 11-15 years) underwent a novel video-based social stressor. Children completed an emotion recognition task prior to and after the stressor in which they saw integrated displays of facial expressions and contexts depicting congruent or incongruent emotional information. Eye tracking assessed changes in at

SUBMITTER: Smith KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686118 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature