The Development of Negative Event-Emotion Matching in Infancy: Implications for Theories in Affective Science.

ABSTRACT: Predicting another person's emotional response to a situation is an important component of emotion concept understanding. However, little is known about the developmental origins of this ability. The current studies examine whether 10-month-olds expect facial configurations/vocalizations associated with negative emotions (e.g., anger, disgust) to be displayed after specific eliciting events. In Experiment 1, 10-month-olds (N = 60) were familiarized to an Emoter interacting with objects in a positive event (Toy Given) and a negative event (Toy Taken). Infants expected the Emoter to display a facial configuration associated with anger after the negative event, but did not expect the Emoter to display a facial configuration associated with happiness after the positive eve

SUBMITTER: Ruba AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9376795 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature