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. 2014 Sep-Dec;175(5-6):416-30.
doi: 10.1080/00221325.2014.941322.

Children's ability to recognize emotions from partial and complete facial expressions

Mathieu Gagnon  1 , Pierre Gosselin, Reem Maassarani
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Children's ability to recognize emotions from partial and complete facial expressions

Mathieu Gagnon et al. J Genet Psychol. 2014 Sep-Dec.

Abstract

The authors investigated children's ability to recognize emotions from the information available in the lower, middle, or upper face. School-age children were shown partial or complete facial expressions and asked to say whether they corresponded to a given emotion (anger, fear, surprise, or disgust). The results indicate that 5-year-olds were able to recognize fear, anger, and surprise from partial facial expressions. Fear was better recognized from the information located in the upper face than those located in the lower face. A similar pattern of results was found for anger, but only in girls. Recognition improved between 5 and 10 years old for surprise and anger, but not for fear and disgust.

Keywords: children; emotion; facial action units; facial expression.

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