The Recognition of Adults' and Children's Facial Expressions of Emotions

Tremblay, Claire; Kirouac, Gilles; Doré, François Y.

doi:10.1080/00223980.1987.9712674

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“…While there is much research on facial expression recognition in infancy and early childhood, it is uncertain whether facial expression recognition abilities continue to develop. Some reports in the literature imply that few interesting changes in facial emotion recognition occur after ages 5 (Harrigan, 1984), 7 (Kirouac, Dore & Gosselin, 1985), or 10 (Tremblay et al , 2001). However, it is possible that the methods used to index facial emotion processing in children were prone to ceiling effects in performance.…”

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Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

Thomas

Bellis

Graham

et al. 2007

Developmental Science

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The ability to interpret emotions in facial expressions is crucial for social functioning across the lifespan. Facial expression recognition develops rapidly during infancy and improves with age during the preschool years. However, the developmental trajectory from late childhood to adulthood is less clear. We tested older children, adolescents and adults on a two-alternative forced-choice discrimination task using morphed faces that varied in emotional content. Actors appeared to pose expressions that changed incrementally along three progressions: neutral-to-fear, neutral-to-anger, and fear-to-anger. Across all three morph types, adults displayed more sensitivity to subtle changes in emotional expression than children and adolescents. Fear morphs and fear-to-anger blends showed a linear developmental trajectory, whereas anger morphs showed a quadratic trend, increasing sharply from adolescents to adults. The results provide evidence for late developmental changes in emotional expression recognition with some specificity in the time course for distinct emotions.

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Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

Thomas

Bellis

Graham

et al. 2007

Developmental Science

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“…Even if perceptual discrimination between different emotional expressions is present from the early stages of life, a more accurate interpretation of emotions appears between three and six years of age (Boyatzis, Chazan, & Ting, 1993;MacDonald, Kirkpatrick, & Sullivan, 1995;Widen & Russell, 2008). Indeed, through the preschool and early primary school years, increases in the ability to correctly recognize and label various emotional facial expressions have been observed (Camras & Allison, 1985;Harrigan 1984;Tremblay, Kirouac, & Dore, 2001) but there is also evidence that the developmental pattern of facial recognition ability is not uniform across emotions (De Sonneville et al, 2002;Vicari, Reilly, Pasqualetti, Vizzotto, & Caltagirone, 2000).…”

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“…Few studies have investigated the ability to recognize emotions from facial expressions in late childhood, and these few studies have reported inconsistent findings. Indeed, some studies reported that there are few interesting changes in facial emotion recognition that occur after seven (Kirouac, Dore & Gosselin, 1985) or ten years of age (Tremblay et al, 2001), whereas others reported that recognition of facial emotions significantly improves between 6 and 15 years of age and adulthood (Herba, Landau, Russell, Ecker, & Phillips, 2006;Herba & Philipps, 2004;Montirosso, Peverelli, Frigerio, Crespi, & Brogatti, 2010;Vicari et al, 2000). Neurodevelopmental studies propose that brain areas involved in facial expression processing continue structural development throughout late childhood and adolescence (Kanwisher, McDermott, & Chun, 1997;Thomas et al, 2001), suggesting that emotional facial recognition abilities may not reach maturity until adulthood (Thomas, De Bellis, Graham, & LaBar, 2007).…”

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Facial Expressions of Emotions: Recognition Accuracy and Affective Reactions During Late Childhood

Mancini

Agnoli

Baldaro

et al. 2013

The Journal of Psychology

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The present study examined the development of recognition ability and affective reactions to emotional facial expressions in a large sample of school-aged children (n = 504, ages 8-11 years of age). Specifically, the study aimed to investigate if changes in the emotion recognition ability and the affective reactions associated with the viewing of facial expressions occur during late childhood. Moreover, because small but robust gender differences during late-childhood have been proposed, the effects of gender on the development of emotion recognition and affective responses were examined. The results showed an overall increase in emotional face recognition ability from 8 to 11 years of age, particularly for neutral and sad expressions. However, the increase in sadness recognition was primarily due to the development of this recognition in boys. Moreover, our results indicate different developmental trends in males and females regarding the recognition of disgust. Last, developmental changes in affective reactions to emotional facial expressions were found. Whereas recognition ability increased over the developmental time period studied, affective reactions elicited by facial expressions were characterized by a decrease in arousal over the course of late childhood.

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“…Anger, fear, and surprise next emerge (as the emotions most accurately identified). Finally, by comparison, children's accuracy for identifying disgust emerges last (Camras & Allison, ; Tremblay et al, ).…”

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It's written all over their faces: Preschoolers' emotion understanding

Bisson

2018

Social Development

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Emotion understanding is a multifaceted construct made up of several components. To identify how several common components of emotion understanding relate to one another, five emotion understanding tasks were compared within the same group of children. Fifty‐four preschool children (M = 3.81 years, SD = 0.40) were asked to display the typical facial expression of six emotions after hearing their corresponding emotion label. They were then read six vignettes and asked to: “use your face to show how [the protagonist] would feel,” provide an emotion label for the main character, and “choose a picture of a face that would look like [the main character].” Finally, they were asked to provide a label for emotions presented to them in photographs. For all tasks, six emotions were examined: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. With the exception of the two modeling tasks, results show correlations among the emotion understanding tasks. There was a significant interaction between task and emotion category for emotion understanding accuracy. However, there was some consistency in the pattern of discrete emotion categorization emergence across the tasks. Additionally, accuracy scores (representing emotion understanding) across tasks were not equivalent. Findings are discussed in the broader context of emotion understanding.

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The Recognition of Adults' and Children's Facial Expressions of Emotions

Cited by 57 publications

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Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

Facial Expressions of Emotions: Recognition Accuracy and Affective Reactions During Late Childhood

It's written all over their faces: Preschoolers' emotion understanding

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