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Peer reviewedBullock, Merry; Russell, James A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
A structural model of emotions was used to reveal patterns in how children interpret the emotional facial expressions of others. Tests with young children and adults indicate that children organize the emotional domain in a systematic fashion, initially according to pleasure and arousal and later in terms of adult-like categories. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Associative Learning, Classification
Peer reviewedBormann-Kischkel, Christiane; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
A study of German-speaking kindergartners and adults replicated Canadian research that found that, although children made more errors than adults in recognizing emotional expressions of photographed faces, they structured emotional concepts just as adults did. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies
