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Time perception in response to ashamed faces in children and adults
Author(s) -
GIL SANDRINE,
DROITVOLET SYLVIE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00858.x
Subject(s) - shame , psychology , perception , expression (computer science) , facial expression , developmental psychology , emotional expression , task (project management) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , communication , management , neuroscience , computer science , economics , programming language
Gil, S. & Droit‐Volet, S. (2011). Time perception in response to ashamed faces in children and adults. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 52 , 138–145. The present study investigated the effect of the perception of faces expressing shame on time perception in children aged 5 and 8 years, as well as in adults, as a function of their ability to recognize this emotional expression. The participants’ ability to recognize the expression of shame among faces expressing different emotions was tested. They were then asked to perform a temporal bisection task involving both neutral and ashamed faces. The results showed that, from the age of 8 years, the participants who recognized the facial expressions of shame underestimated their presentation time compared to that of neutral faces. In contrast, no time distortion was observed in the children who did not recognize the ashamed faces or in those younger children who did recognize them. The results are discussed in terms of self‐conscious emotions which develop to involve an attentional mechanism.