Article
Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies
Infancy
(2017)
Abstract
Accurate assessment of emotion requires the coordination of information from different sources such as faces, bodies, and voices. Adults readily integrate facial and bodily emotions. However, not much is known about the developmental origin of this capacity. Using a familiarization paired-comparison procedure, 6.5-month-olds in the current experiments were familiarized to happy, angry, or sad emotions in faces or bodies and tested with the opposite image type portraying the familiar emotion paired with a novel emotion. Infants looked longer at the familiar emotion across faces and bodies (except when familiarized to angry images and tested on the happy/angry contrast). This matching occurred not only for emotions from different affective categories (happy, angry) but also within the negative affective category (angry, sad). Thus, 6.5-month-olds, like adults, integrate emotions from bodies and faces in a fairly sophisticated manner, suggesting rapid development of emotion processing early in life.
Keywords
- integrated emotion processing,
- infancy
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2017
DOI
10.1111/infa.12177
Citation Information
Alyson J. Hock, Leah Oberst, Rachel Jubran, Hannah White, et al.. "Integrated Emotion Processing in Infancy: Matching of Faces and Bodies" Infancy Vol. 22 Iss. 5 (2017) p. 608 - 625 ISSN: 1532-7078 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alyson-chroust/1/