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Kropp, Joseph P.; Haynes, O. Maurice – Child Development, 1987
A group of 20 abusive mothers and a group of 20 matched, nonabusive mothers were shown slides depicting infants in seven different emotional states. Abusive mothers were more likely to incorrectly identify specific signals of emotion and to label negative affect as positive. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Comparative Analysis, Cues
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Pollak, Seth D.; Cicchetti, Dante; Klorman, Rafael; Brumaghim, Joan T. – Child Development, 1997
Recorded cognitive event-related potentials from maltreated and nonmaltreated children during presentations of happy, angry, or neutral facial expressions. Found that for nonmaltreated children, the average amplitude of P300 was comparable for responses to happy and neutral expressions. Maltreated children displayed larger P300 amplitude to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Abuse, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Pollak, Seth D.; Sinha, Pawan – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined visual perception of emotion in typically developing and physically abused children, focusing on the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes. Found that physically abused children accurately identified facial displays of anger on the basis of less sensory input than did typically…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Child Abuse, Children
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Montague, Diane P. F.; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated 4-month-olds' responsiveness to others' affective expressions in the context of a peekaboo game. Found differential patterns of visual attention and affective responsiveness to happiness/surprise, anger, fear, and sadness. Findings underscore importance of contextual information for facilitating recognition of emotion expressions and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Corona, Rosalie; Dissanayake, Cheryl; Arbelle, Shoshana; Wellington, Peter; Sigman, Marian – Child Development, 1998
Compared attention, behavioral reaction, facial affect, and cardiac responses of 22 autistic and 22 mentally retarded preschoolers to emotional displays. Found that both groups looked more at the experimenter and displayed more interest and concern when the experimenter showed strong distress than when she showed neutral affect. Autistic…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Autism, Child Behavior
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Messinger, Daniel S.; Fogel, Alan; Dickson, K. Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Observed weekly 13 infants from 1 to 6 months of age to determine when they produced different types of smiling and other facial expressions. Found that the cheek-raise and open-mouth dimensions of smiling appear to be associated with, respectively, amplification of processes of sharing positive affect and of visual engagement present to a lesser…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Development, Emotional Response
McAlpine, Christopher; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
This study of 501 children and adults found that subjects with mental retardation or borderline intelligence were less proficient at identifying facial expressions of emotion than were children of average intelligence. Among individuals with mental retardation or borderline intelligence, recognition increased with intelligence quotient. Among…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
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Bendersky, Margaret; Lewis, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined arousal regulation as a function of levels of prenatal cocaine exposure in 4-month-olds, using a "still face" procedure. Found that, independent of several other factors, a greater percentage of heavily cocaine-exposed infants, compared to unexposed infants, showed less enjoyment during "en face" play with their mothers and continued to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Attention, Cocaine
Adams, Kym; Markham, Roslyn – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Forty-nine children (ages 8-17) with mental retardation recognized facial expressions less accurately than did subjects without retardation who were matched on chronological age. Mental age-matched groups showed no differences in accuracy at a younger mental age, but a difference was found at an older mental age. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
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Messinger, Daniel S.; Fogel, Alan; Dickson, K. Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Compared Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles of 1- to 6-month olds during weekly videotapes of mother/infant interaction for clues regarding emotional significance. Correlated levels of Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiling within sessions; found that they had similar developmental trajectories. Duchenne smiles were typically preceded by non-Duchenne…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Comparative Analysis
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Abramson, Lauren – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Investigated emotional and facial expressivity in infants who failed to thrive and normal infants who were videotaped in social and cognitive contexts. Although differences in emotional expressivity were not found, infants who failed to thrive displayed more negative effects and used their lower faces less often to express emotion. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response, Eye Contact