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Experiential Influences on Multimodal Perception of Emotion
Author(s) -
Shackman Jessica E.,
Pollak Seth D.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00901.x
Subject(s) - psychology , emotion perception , anger , perception , facial expression , salience (neuroscience) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , communication , neuroscience
The impact of 2 types of learning experiences on children's perception of multimodal emotion cues was examined. Children (aged 7–12 years) were presented with conflicting facial and vocal emotions. The effects of familiarity were tested by varying whether emotions were presented by familiar or unfamiliar adults. The salience of particular emotional expressions was tested by contrasting the performance of physically abused and nonabused children. Children exhibited a preference for auditory expressions produced by their mothers but not by strangers. Additionally, abused children were biased to rely on auditory cues when their own abusive mother was expressing anger. These results are discussed in terms of the impact of both typical and atypical early experiences on the development of emotion perception.