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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
