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Article
Post-institutionalized Chinese and Eastern European children: Heterogeneity in the development of emotion understanding
International Journal of Behavioral Development (2006)
  • Linda A. Camras
  • Susan B. Perlman, DePaul University
  • Alison B. Wismer Fries, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Seth D. Pollak, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Abstract
Post-institutionalized Chinese and Eastern European children participated in two emotion understanding
tasks. In one task, children selected facial expressions corresponding to four emotion labels
(happy, sad, angry, scared). The second task required children to match facial expressions to stories
describing situations for these emotions. While both post-institutionalized groups scored lower than
the never-institutionalized children, those from China performed better than those from Eastern
Europe. Post-institutionalized children’s performance was predicted by their age at adoption.
Keywords
  • Chinese children,
  • emotion,
  • emotion understanding,
  • Eastern European children,
  • postinstitutionalized children
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
DOI
10.1177/0165025406063608
Citation Information
Linda A. Camras, Susan B. Perlman, Alison B. Wismer Fries and Seth D. Pollak. "Post-institutionalized Chinese and Eastern European children: Heterogeneity in the development of emotion understanding" International Journal of Behavioral Development Vol. 30 Iss. 3 (2006) p. 193 - 199 ISSN: 0165-0254
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/linda_camras/49/