Recognition of Facial Expressions of Mixed Emotions in School-Age Children Exposed to Terrorism

Autor/inn/en	Scrimin, Sara; Moscardino, Ughetta; Capello, Fabia; Altoe, Gianmarco; Axia, Giovanna
Titel	Recognition of Facial Expressions of Mixed Emotions in School-Age Children Exposed to Terrorism
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 45 (2009) 5, S.1341-1352 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0016689
Schlagwörter	Stimuli; Nonverbal Communication; Terrorism; Foreign Countries; Psychological Patterns; Recognition (Psychology); Human Body; Emotional Response; Measures (Individuals); Children; Responses; Russia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anreizsystem; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Terrorismus; Ausland; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Menschlicher Körper; Emotionales Verhalten; Messdaten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Russland
Abstract	This exploratory study aims at investigating the effects of terrorism on children's ability to recognize emotions. A sample of 101 exposed and 102 nonexposed children (mean age = 11 years), balanced for age and gender, were assessed 20 months after a terrorist attack in Beslan, Russia. Two trials controlled for children's ability to match a facial emotional stimulus with an emotional label and their ability to match an emotional label with an emotional context. The experimental trial evaluated the relation between exposure to terrorism and children's free labeling of mixed emotion facial stimuli created by morphing between 2 prototypical emotions. Repeated measures analyses of covariance revealed that exposed children correctly recognized pure emotions. Four log-linear models were performed to explore the association between exposure group and category of answer given in response to different mixed emotion facial stimuli. Model parameters indicated that, compared with nonexposed children, exposed children (a) labeled facial expressions containing anger and sadness significantly more often than expected as anger, and (b) produced fewer correct answers in response to stimuli containing sadness as a target emotion. (Contains 3 figures, 4 tables and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10