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Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion
Facial expressions aid social transactions and serve as socialization tools, with smiles signaling approval and reward, and angry faces signaling disapproval and punishment. The present study examined whether the subjective experience of positive vs. negative facial expressions differs between child...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26734940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145643 |
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author | Picardo, Rochelle Baron, Andrew S. Anderson, Adam K. Todd, Rebecca M. |
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description | Facial expressions aid social transactions and serve as socialization tools, with smiles signaling approval and reward, and angry faces signaling disapproval and punishment. The present study examined whether the subjective experience of positive vs. negative facial expressions differs between children and adults. Specifically, we examined age-related differences in biases toward happy and angry facial expressions. Young children (5–7 years) and young adults (18–29 years) rated the intensity of happy and angry expressions as well as levels of experienced arousal. Results showed that young children—but not young adults—rated happy facial expressions as both more intense and arousing than angry faces. This finding, which we replicated in two independent samples, was not due to differences in the ability to identify facial expressions, and suggests that children are more tuned to information in positive expressions. Together these studies provide evidence that children see unambiguous adult emotional expressions through rose-colored glasses, and suggest that what is emotionally relevant can shift with development. |
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spelling | pubmed-47033392016-01-15 Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion Picardo, Rochelle Baron, Andrew S. Anderson, Adam K. Todd, Rebecca M. PLoS One Research Article Facial expressions aid social transactions and serve as socialization tools, with smiles signaling approval and reward, and angry faces signaling disapproval and punishment. The present study examined whether the subjective experience of positive vs. negative facial expressions differs between children and adults. Specifically, we examined age-related differences in biases toward happy and angry facial expressions. Young children (5–7 years) and young adults (18–29 years) rated the intensity of happy and angry expressions as well as levels of experienced arousal. Results showed that young children—but not young adults—rated happy facial expressions as both more intense and arousing than angry faces. This finding, which we replicated in two independent samples, was not due to differences in the ability to identify facial expressions, and suggests that children are more tuned to information in positive expressions. Together these studies provide evidence that children see unambiguous adult emotional expressions through rose-colored glasses, and suggest that what is emotionally relevant can shift with development. Public Library of Science 2016-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4703339/ /pubmed/26734940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145643 Text en © 2016 Picardo et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://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 Picardo, Rochelle Baron, Andrew S. Anderson, Adam K. Todd, Rebecca M. Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title | Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title_full | Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title_fullStr | Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title_full_unstemmed | Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title_short | Tuning to the Positive: Age-Related Differences in Subjective Perception of Facial Emotion |
title_sort | tuning to the positive: age-related differences in subjective perception of facial emotion |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26734940 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145643 |
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