Making faces: Testing the relation between child behavior problems and mothers' interpretations of child emotion expressions

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 371-380

  Snarr, Jeffery D ^a   Strassberg, Zvi ^a   Smith Slep, Amy M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Behavior problems; Bias; Mothers; Ownness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038464598     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023887401140     Document Type: Article

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