Children can discriminate the authenticity of happy but not sad or fearful facial expressions, and use an immature intensity-only strategy

Much is known about development of the ability to label facial expressions of emotion (e.g., as happy or sad), but rather less is known about the emergence of more complex emotional face processing skills. The present study investigates one such advanced skill: the ability to tell if someone is genu...

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Main Authors: Amy eDawel, Romina ePalermo, Richard eO'Kearney, Elinor eMcKone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00462/full