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Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions
Ostracism has been shown to induce considerable physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes in adults. Previous research demonstrated its effects on children’s cognitive and behavioral abilities, but less is known about its impact on their capacity to recognize subtle variations in social cues....
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10270353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37319141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287106 |
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author | Mermier, Julia Quadrelli, Ermanno Bulf, Hermann Turati, Chiara |
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description | Ostracism has been shown to induce considerable physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes in adults. Previous research demonstrated its effects on children’s cognitive and behavioral abilities, but less is known about its impact on their capacity to recognize subtle variations in social cues. The present study aimed at investigating whether social manipulations of inclusion and ostracism modulate emotion recognition abilities in children, and whether this modulation varies across childhood. To do so, 5- and 10-year-old children participated in a computer-based ball tossing game called Cyberball during which they were either included or ostracized. Then, they completed a facial emotion recognition task in which they were required to identify neutral facial expressions, or varying levels of intensity of angry and fearful facial expressions. Results indicated lower misidentification rates for children who were previously ostracized as compared to children who were previously included, both at 5 and 10 years of age. Moreover, when looking at children’s accuracy and sensitivity to facial expressions, 5-year-olds’ decoding abilities were affected by the social manipulation, while no difference between included and ostracized participants was observed for 10-year-olds. In particular, included and ostracized 10-year-old children as well as ostracized 5-year-olds showed higher accuracy and sensitivity for expressions of fear as compared to anger, while no such difference was observed for included 5-year-olds. Overall, the current study presents evidence that Cyberball-induced inclusion and ostracism modulate children’s recognition of emotional faces. |
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spelling | pubmed-102703532023-06-16 Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions Mermier, Julia Quadrelli, Ermanno Bulf, Hermann Turati, Chiara PLoS One Research Article Ostracism has been shown to induce considerable physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes in adults. Previous research demonstrated its effects on children’s cognitive and behavioral abilities, but less is known about its impact on their capacity to recognize subtle variations in social cues. The present study aimed at investigating whether social manipulations of inclusion and ostracism modulate emotion recognition abilities in children, and whether this modulation varies across childhood. To do so, 5- and 10-year-old children participated in a computer-based ball tossing game called Cyberball during which they were either included or ostracized. Then, they completed a facial emotion recognition task in which they were required to identify neutral facial expressions, or varying levels of intensity of angry and fearful facial expressions. Results indicated lower misidentification rates for children who were previously ostracized as compared to children who were previously included, both at 5 and 10 years of age. Moreover, when looking at children’s accuracy and sensitivity to facial expressions, 5-year-olds’ decoding abilities were affected by the social manipulation, while no difference between included and ostracized participants was observed for 10-year-olds. In particular, included and ostracized 10-year-old children as well as ostracized 5-year-olds showed higher accuracy and sensitivity for expressions of fear as compared to anger, while no such difference was observed for included 5-year-olds. Overall, the current study presents evidence that Cyberball-induced inclusion and ostracism modulate children’s recognition of emotional faces. Public Library of Science 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10270353/ /pubmed/37319141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287106 Text en © 2023 Mermier et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mermier, Julia Quadrelli, Ermanno Bulf, Hermann Turati, Chiara Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title | Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title_full | Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title_fullStr | Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title_full_unstemmed | Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title_short | Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
title_sort | ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10270353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37319141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287106 |
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