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Balas, Benjamin; Auen, Amanda; Saville, Alyson; Schmidt, Jamie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Children's ability to recognize emotional expressions from faces and bodies develops during childhood. However, the low-level features that support accurate body emotion recognition during development have not been well characterized. This is in marked contrast to facial emotion recognition, which is known to depend upon specific spatial frequency…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Emotional Response, Recognition (Psychology), Learning Processes
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Endedijk, Hinke M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
In preschool classes, sociometric peer ratings are used to measure children's peer relationships. The current study examined a computerized version of preschool sociometric ratings. The psychometric properties were compared of computerized sociometric ratings and traditional peer ratings for preschoolers. The distributions, inter-item…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Peer Relationship
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de Heering, Adelaide; Schiltz, Christine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Sensitivity to spacing information within faces improves with age and reaches maturity only at adolescence. In this study, we tested 6-16-year-old children's sensitivity to vertical spacing when the eyes or the mouth is the facial feature selectively manipulated. Despite the similar discriminability of these manipulations when they are embedded in…
Descriptors: Human Body, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Visual Perception