Understanding Social Display Rules: Using One Person’s Emotional Expressions to Infer the Desires of Another
© 2019 The Authors Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development In social contexts, people’s emotional expressions may disguise their true feelings but still be revealing about the probable desires of their intended audience. This stud...
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| description | © 2019 The Authors Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development In social contexts, people’s emotional expressions may disguise their true feelings but still be revealing about the probable desires of their intended audience. This study investigates whether children can use emotional expressions in social contexts to recover the desires of the person observing, rather than displaying the emotion. Children (7.0–10.9 years, N = 211 across five experiments) saw a protagonist express one emotional expression in front of her social partner, and a different expression behind her partner’s back. Although the protagonist expressed contradictory emotions (and the partner expressed none), even 7-year-olds inferred both the protagonist’s and social partner’s desires. These results suggest that children can recover not only the desire of the person displaying emotion but also of the person observing it. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1340052021-10-28T03:32:58Z Understanding Social Display Rules: Using One Person’s Emotional Expressions to Infer the Desires of Another Wu, Yang Schulz, Laura E © 2019 The Authors Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development In social contexts, people’s emotional expressions may disguise their true feelings but still be revealing about the probable desires of their intended audience. This study investigates whether children can use emotional expressions in social contexts to recover the desires of the person observing, rather than displaying the emotion. Children (7.0–10.9 years, N = 211 across five experiments) saw a protagonist express one emotional expression in front of her social partner, and a different expression behind her partner’s back. Although the protagonist expressed contradictory emotions (and the partner expressed none), even 7-year-olds inferred both the protagonist’s and social partner’s desires. These results suggest that children can recover not only the desire of the person displaying emotion but also of the person observing it. 2021-10-27T19:57:36Z 2021-10-27T19:57:36Z 2019 2021-03-25T12:43:28Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134005 en 10.1111/CDEV.13346 Child Development Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley Wiley |
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| title | Understanding Social Display Rules: Using One Person’s Emotional Expressions to Infer the Desires of Another |
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