A picture of happiness

McKenzie, Karen; Matheson, Edith; McKaskie, Kerry; Hamilton, Lucie; Murray, George

doi:10.7748/ldp2001.05.4.1.26.c1451

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“…The child control group performed significantly better on images both with and without context, compared with line drawings. Both of these findings are consistent with previous results found by McKenzie et al (2001) and support the recommendation that communication programmes for people with ID should perhaps make use of photographs that have meaning to the individual, rather than symbols or line drawings.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In terms of task demand, the present study found that both participant groups performed better when asked to identify the target emotion from a choice of two images and performed least accurately when required to name the emotion in the target picture. This again supports the findings of McKenzie et al (2001), who highlighted the importance of considering methodology when devising targeted approaches to improve emotion recognition abilities of people with ID.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…There is some evidence to suggest that emotion recognition accuracy is improved when photographs of human facial emotions are used, compared with comic strip stimuli or graphic representations (Rojahn, Lederer & Tassé, 1995). Additionally, McKenzie, Matheson, McKaskie, Hamilton, and Murray (2001) highlighted the importance of situational clues in communicating information about the emotions of others. These authors found that emotion recognition accuracy improved when adults with ID were asked to identify emotions from a photograph with contextual information available, when compared to line drawings; yet the majority of research in this area, to date, has been based upon studies that used either line drawings or simple black and white photographs of the face in isolation (Moore, 2001).…”

Section: The Impact Of Task Demand and Context On Emotion Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An updated version (revised to include expressions of disgust, surprise and neutrality) of the 'Feelings and Emotions' assessment (McKenzie et al, 2001) was administered to all participants. The pictures in the revised version were initially piloted with a group of people who worked in the area of child development and/or ID and emotion research.…”

Section: Emotion Recognition Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by adults with intellectual disability: Is there evidence for the emotion specificity hypothesis?

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Research in Developmental Disabilities

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This study aimed to evaluate the emotion recognition abilities of adults (n=23) with an intellectual disability (ID) compared with a control group of children (n=23) without ID matched for estimated cognitive ability. The study examined the impact of: task paradigm, stimulus type and preferred processing style (global/local) on accuracy. We found that, after controlling for estimated cognitive ability, the control group performed significantly better than the individuals with ID. This provides some support for the emotion specificity hypothesis. Having a more local processing style did not significantly mediate the relation between having ID and emotion recognition, but did significantly predict emotion recognition ability after controlling for group. This suggests that processing style is related to emotion recognition independently of having ID. The availability of contextual information improved emotion recognition for people with ID when compared with line drawing stimuli, and identifying a target emotion from a choice of two was relatively easier for individuals with ID, compared with the other task paradigms. The results of the study are considered in the context of current theories of emotion recognition deficits in individuals with ID.

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Section: 1emotion Specificity Hypothesissupporting

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Section: 1emotion Specificity Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: The Impact Of Task Demand and Context On Emotion Recognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Emotion Recognition Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by adults with intellectual disability: Is there evidence for the emotion specificity hypothesis?

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“…This was based on an assessment reported in McKenzie, Matheson, McKaskie, Hamilton, and Murray (2001) and subsequently used by Scotland et al (2016). This involved presenting participants with examples of emotions depicted in photographs and asking them to identify the specific emotion.…”

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The relations between processing style, autistic-like traits, and emotion recognition in individuals with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

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An exploration of the impact of contextual information on the emotion recognition ability of autistic adults

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Studies of non‐autistic individuals and people with an intellectual disability show that contextual information impacts positively on emotion recognition ability, however, this area is not well researched with autistic adults. We investigated this using a static emotion recognition task. Participants completed an emotion recognition task in person or online. In total, 46 autistic participants and 379 non‐autistic participants completed the task. A linear mixed model showed that autistic adults had significantly lower accuracy when identifying emotions across all contexts, compared to control participants, even when contextual information was present. No significant effect of context was found in either group, nor was gender shown to be an influential variable. A supplementary analysis showed that higher scores on the Autism‐Spectrum Quotient led to lower scores on the emotion recognition task; no effect of context was found here either. This research adds to the limited work investigating the influence of contextual factors in emotion recognition in autistic adults. Overall, it shows that context may not aid emotion recognition in this group in the same way as it does for non‐autistic individuals.

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A picture of happiness

Cited by 14 publications

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Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by adults with intellectual disability: Is there evidence for the emotion specificity hypothesis?

Recognition of facial expressions of emotion by adults with intellectual disability: Is there evidence for the emotion specificity hypothesis?

The relations between processing style, autistic-like traits, and emotion recognition in individuals with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

An exploration of the impact of contextual information on the emotion recognition ability of autistic adults

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