The development of emotion-processing in children: Effects of age, emotion, and intensity

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1098-1106

  Herba, Catherine M ^a,b   Landau, Sabine ^a   Russell, Tamara ^a   Ecker, Christine ^a   Phillips, Mary L ^a,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Emotion recognition; Emotion matching; Facial expressions; Implicit emotion processing; Intensity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33750506500     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01652.x     Document Type: Article

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