Facial expressions and ability to recognize emotions from eyes or mouth in children
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Guarnera, Maria
Hichy, Zira
Cascio, Maura I.
Carrubba, Stefano
Abstract / Description
This research aims to contribute to the literature on the ability to recognize anger, happiness, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust and neutral emotions from facial information. By investigating children’s performance in detecting these emotions from a specific face region, we were interested to know whether children would show differences in recognizing these expressions from the upper or lower face, and if any difference between specific facial regions depended on the emotion in question. For this purpose, a group of 6-7 year-old children was selected. Participants were asked to recognize emotions by using a labeling task with three stimulus types (region of the eyes, of the mouth, and full face). The findings seem to indicate that children correctly recognize basic facial expressions when pictures represent the whole face, except for a neutral expression, which was recognized from the mouth, and sadness, which was recognized from the eyes. Children are also able to identify anger from the eyes as well as from the whole face. With respect to gender differences, there is no female advantage in emotional recognition. The results indicate a significant interaction ‘gender x face region’ only for anger and neutral emotions.
Keyword(s)
facial expressions emotions children recognizing from eyes recognizing from mouth labeling taskPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2015-05-29
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
11
Issue
2
Page numbers
183–196
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Citation
Guarnera, M., Hichy, Z., Cascio, M. I., & Carrubba, S. (2015). Facial expressions and ability to recognize emotions from eyes or mouth in children. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 11(2), 183–196. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i2.890
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Guarnera, Maria
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hichy, Zira
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Cascio, Maura I.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Carrubba, Stefano
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Date of first publication2015-05-29
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Abstract / DescriptionThis research aims to contribute to the literature on the ability to recognize anger, happiness, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust and neutral emotions from facial information. By investigating children’s performance in detecting these emotions from a specific face region, we were interested to know whether children would show differences in recognizing these expressions from the upper or lower face, and if any difference between specific facial regions depended on the emotion in question. For this purpose, a group of 6-7 year-old children was selected. Participants were asked to recognize emotions by using a labeling task with three stimulus types (region of the eyes, of the mouth, and full face). The findings seem to indicate that children correctly recognize basic facial expressions when pictures represent the whole face, except for a neutral expression, which was recognized from the mouth, and sadness, which was recognized from the eyes. Children are also able to identify anger from the eyes as well as from the whole face. With respect to gender differences, there is no female advantage in emotional recognition. The results indicate a significant interaction ‘gender x face region’ only for anger and neutral emotions.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationGuarnera, M., Hichy, Z., Cascio, M. I., & Carrubba, S. (2015). Facial expressions and ability to recognize emotions from eyes or mouth in children. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 11(2), 183–196. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i2.890
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/947
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1139
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i2.890
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Keyword(s)facial expressionsen_US
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Keyword(s)emotionsen_US
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Keyword(s)childrenen_US
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Keyword(s)recognizing from eyesen_US
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Keyword(s)recognizing from mouthen_US
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Keyword(s)labeling tasken_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleFacial expressions and ability to recognize emotions from eyes or mouth in childrenen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers183–196
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Volume11
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record