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Montague, Diane P. F.; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S. – Child Development, 2002
Explored the effect of person familiarity and parental involvement on 3.5-month-old infants' sensitivity to the dynamic emotion expressions of others. Found that infants looked differentially at mothers' expressions but not at those of fathers or unfamiliar adults, and that parent-child involvement significantly influenced infants' developing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Facial Expressions, Familiarity, Fathers
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Rump, Keiran M.; Giovannelli, Joyce L.; Minshew, Nancy J.; Strauss, Mark S. – Child Development, 2009
Emotion recognition was investigated in typically developing individuals and individuals with autism. Experiment 1 tested children (5-7 years, n = 37) with brief video displays of facial expressions that varied in subtlety. Children with autism performed worse than the control children. In Experiment 2, 3 age groups (8-12 years, n = 49; 13-17…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Recognition (Psychology)
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Reichenbach, Lisa; Masters, John C. – Child Development, 1983
Preschool and third-grade children judged the emotional states of other children on the basis of expressive cues alone, contextual cues alone, or both expressive and contextual cues. Older children were more accurate than younger children only when given multiple cues. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive-developmental and social learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students