Infants' Perception of Emotion from Body Movements

Autor/inn/en	Zieber, Nicole; Kangas, Ashley; Hock, Alyson; Bhatt, Ramesh S.
Titel	Infants' Perception of Emotion from Body Movements
Quelle	In: Child Development, 85 (2014) 2, S.675-684 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12134
Schlagwörter	Infants; Emotional Development; Emotional Response; Human Body; Nonverbal Communication; Visual Stimuli; Visual Discrimination; Affective Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Gefühlsbildung; Emotionales Verhalten; Menschlicher Körper; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung
Abstract	Adults recognize emotions conveyed by bodies with comparable accuracy to facial emotions. However, no prior study has explored infants' perception of body emotions. In Experiment 1, 6.5-month-olds (n = 32) preferred happy over neutral actions of actors with covered faces in upright but not inverted silent videos. In Experiment 2, infants (n = 32) matched happy and angry videos to corresponding vocalizations when the videos were upright but not when they were inverted. Experiment 3 (n = 16) demonstrated that infants' performance in Experiment 2 was not driven by information from the covered face and head. Thus, young infants are sensitive to emotions conveyed by bodies and match them to affective vocalizations, indicating sophisticated emotion processing capabilities early in life. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10