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Infants' use of attentional cues to identify the referent of another person's emotional expression.

Repacholi, Betty M.·1998·Developmental Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0012-1649.34.5.1017
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This study explored 14- and 18-month-old infants' ability to identify the target of an emotional display. In the visual task, infants were presented with 2 boxes. Each box contained an object that could be identified by opening the box lid and looking inside. In the tactile task, the objects had to be pulled out of the boxes before they could be seen. An experimenter expressed happiness as she looked or put her hand inside one box, and disgust as she repeated this action with the other box. Infants were then allowed to explore the boxes. Infants touched both boxes but preferred to search for the happy object. Thus, regardless of age or task, infants identified the target of each emotional display as something inside a box and not the box itself. Infants appeared to use the experimenter's attentional cues (gaze and action) to interpret her emotional signals and behaved as if they understood that she was communicating about the objects.

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  • 14-month-old babies were more likely to select a box that had elicited a facial expression of happiness from another person than a box that had elicited an expression of disgust.

    “In one experiment, 14-month-old babies were more likely to select a box that had elicited a facial expression of happiness from another person than a box that had elicited an expression of disgust (Repacholi 1998).”

    From The Social Effects of Emotions (2022) · cites this paper as Repacholi 1998

  • Behavioral responses of human infants and nonhuman primates are mediated by some form of inferential processing.

    “The complexity of the issue is compounded by findings suggesting that behavioral responses of human infants (Repacholi 1998) and nonhuman primates (Buttelmann et al. 2009) are mediated by some form of inferential processing.”

    From The Social Effects of Emotions (2022) · cites this paper as Repacholi 1998

  • Basic behavioral responses (e.g., approach/avoidance) to emotional expressions shown by human adults also occur in human infants and nonhuman primates, suggesting a hard-wired biological basis for such responses.

    “Basic behavioral responses (e.g., approach/avoidance) to emotional expressions shown by human adults also occur in human infants and nonhuman primates (Buttelmann et al. 2009, Repacholi 1998, Sorce et al. 1985), suggesting a hard-wired biological basis for such responses.”

    From The Social Effects of Emotions (2022) · cites this paper as Repacholi 1998

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Authors
Repacholi, B. M.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Repacholi, Betty M.
Venue
Developmental Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1998-09
Volume
34
Issue
5
Pages
1017-1025
ISSN
  • 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0599
DOI
10.1037/0012-1649.34.5.1017
OpenAlex
W4239784106
Cited by
194
References
1
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
infant attention, attentional cues, referent identification, emotional expression, social cognition, face perception, joint attention
MeSH terms
Attention, Psychology, Child, Concept Formation, Cues, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Infant, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Nonverbal Communication, Social Perception

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