False Beliefs about Emotion: Children's Understanding of Misleading Emotional Displays.

Gross, Dana; Harris, Paul L.

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Publication Date: 1988

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False Beliefs about Emotion: Children's Understanding of Misleading Emotional Displays.

Gross, Dana; Harris, Paul L.

International Journal of Behavioral Development, v11 n4 p475-88 Dec 1988

Forty-eight children aged four and six years listened to stories in which it would be appropriate for the protagonist to feel a negative emotion. Results indicated that six-year-olds were more accurate than four-year-olds in judging that real and apparent emotion would not coincide when the protagonist hid feelings. (RJC)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Deception, Emotional Development, Facial Expressions, Social Cognition, Young Children

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Language: English

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