Children’s processing of emotion in ironic language

In the present study we addressed two novel questions: 1) is children’s irony appreciation and processing related to their empathy skills? and 2) is children’s processing of a speaker’s ironic meaning best explained by a modular or interactive theory? Participants were 31 8- and 9-year-old children....

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Main Authors: Andrew eNicholson, Juanita M Whalen, Penny M Pexman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00691/full