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Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion.
Seth D. Pollak,Pawan Sinha +1 more
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The authors examined the processes by which perceptual mechanisms become attuned to the contingencies of affective signals in the environment, and measured the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes.Abstract:
The present research examines visual perception of emotion in both typical and atypical development. To examine the processes by which perceptual mechanisms become attuned to the contingencies of affective signals in the environment, the authors measured the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes. To evaluate the role of experience, they compared typically developing children with physically abused children, who were presumed to have experienced high levels of threat and hostility. As predicted, physically abused children accurately identified facial displays of anger on the basis of less sensory input than did controls, which suggests that physically abused children have facilitated access to representations of anger. The findings are discussed in terms of experiential processes in perceptual learning.read more
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Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving toward a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms.
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Bullying victimization in youths and mental health problems: 'much ado about nothing'?
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Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements:
Lisa Feldman Barrett,Ralph Adolphs,Stacy Marsella,Stacy Marsella,Aleix M. Martinez,Seth D. Pollak +5 more
TL;DR: There is an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another.
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Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation.
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TL;DR: The findings are consistent with previous reports describing negative effects of prolonged orphanage care on emotional behavior and with animal models that show long-term changes in the amygdala and emotional behavior following early postnatal stress.
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Constructing an understanding of mind : the development of children's social understanding within social interaction
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