Recognition of Uncertainty in Emotional Inferences: Reasoning about Emotionally Equivocal Situations.

Gnepp, Jackie; Klayman, Joshua

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Publication Date: 1992

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Recognition of Uncertainty in Emotional Inferences: Reasoning about Emotionally Equivocal Situations.

Gnepp, Jackie; Klayman, Joshua

Developmental Psychology, v28 n1 p145-58 Jan 1992

Students in first, third, and sixth grade and college heard scenarios in which a peer experienced an emotionally equivocal or unequivocal event. Neither prompting children to consider alternatives nor reminding them of peers' individual differences produced greater discrimination between equivocal and unequivocal situations. (BC)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Anger, College Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Happiness, Higher Education, Social Cognition, Social Development

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