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Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion.

Pollak, Seth D., Sinha, Pawan·2002·Developmental Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0012-1649.38.5.784
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The present research examines visual perception of emotion in both typical and atypical development. To examine the processes by which perceptual mechanisms become attuned to the contingencies of affective signals in the environment, the authors measured the sequential, content-based properties of feature detection in emotion recognition processes. To evaluate the role of experience, they compared typically developing children with physically abused children, who were presumed to have experienced high levels of threat and hostility. As predicted, physically abused children accurately identified facial displays of anger on the basis of less sensory input than did controls, which suggests that physically abused children have facilitated access to representations of anger. The findings are discussed in terms of experiential processes in perceptual learning.

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  • School-aged physically abused children have been shown to be highly sensitive to degraded threat signals, which may reduce constant vigilance in an abusive home.

    “School-aged physically abused children, on the other hand, have been shown to be highly sensitive to even very degraded signals of threat, which although potentially maladaptive in some contexts, may provide some relief from constant vigilance in the abusive home (Pollak, Cicchetti, & Klorman, 1998; Pollak & Sinha, 2002; Shackman, Shackman, & Pollak, 2007).”

    From The Differential Impacts of Early Physical and Sexual Abuse and Internalizing Problems on Daytime Cortisol Rhythm in School-Aged Children (2010) · cites this paper as Pollak & Sinha, 2002

  • Children who have been physically abused have a lower threshold to detect angry facial expression than children who were not abused.

    “Children who have been physically abused have a lower threshold to detect angry facial expression than children who were not abused (Pollak and Sinha, 2002), indicating a potential bias to threatening stimuli, presumably due to the salience of anger in the environment for abused children.”

    From Deviations from the expectable environment in early childhood and emerging psychopathology (2015) · cites this paper as Pollak and Sinha, 2002

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Authors
Pollak, S. D., & Sinha, P.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
ORCID
Venue
Developmental Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2002
Volume
38
Issue
5
Pages
784-791
ISSN
  • 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-0599
DOI
10.1037/0012-1649.38.5.784
OpenAlex
W4249514754
Cited by
579
References
3
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH61285, R01MH061285)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
early life experience, facial emotion recognition, emotional expression, children, social experience
MeSH terms
Child, Child Abuse, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Identification, Psychological, Life Change Events, Male, Personality Development, Social Perception, Recognition, Psychology

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