Infants' Use of Attentional Cues To Identify the Referent of Another Person's Emotional Expression.

Repacholi, Betty M.

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Publication Date: 1998

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Infants' Use of Attentional Cues To Identify the Referent of Another Person's Emotional Expression.

Repacholi, Betty M.

Developmental Psychology, v34 n5 p1017-25 Sep 1998

Explored 14- and 18-month olds' ability to identify the target of the experimenter's emotional display of happiness or disgust in response to something seen or felt inside a box. Findings suggested that, regardless of age, infants used the experimenter's attentional cues to interpret her emotional signals and behaved as if they understood that she was communicating about the objects. (Author)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attention, Comparative Analysis, Cues, Emotional Development, Happiness, Infant Behavior, Infants, Responses, Social Cognition, Visual Stimuli

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Language: English

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