A influência da intensidade emocional no reconhecimento de emoções em faces por criancas brasileiras / The importance of emotional intensity on the recognition of facial emotions by Brazilian children
Univ. psychol
;
15(spe5): 1-9, oct.-dic. 2016. ilus, tab
Article
in Portuguese
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| ID: biblio-963237
ABSTRACT
The ability to recognize emotions in faces is essential to human interaction and occurs since childhood. Hypothesis:
research using the morphing technique assume that children require greater or lesser intensity of emotional expression to perceive it.Objective:
to examine the emotional recognition of faces in childhood, using a task with emotional intensity variation.Method:
it was applied a Test of Facial Emotion Recognition for Children to 28 children between 7 and 11 years, of both sexes, which presented 168 faces manipulated by the morphing technique, of the six basic emotions.Results:
age as a trend growth of the likelihood of success at the task; more right answers for happiness and worst performances for fear; and the emotional intensity increasing at 42% the chance of success by every unit of intensity.Conclusion:
these findings are relevant because they show the recognition of emotions at different levels as a more sensitive method.
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South America
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Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Univ. psychol
Journal subject:
Psicolog¡a
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Federal da Paraíba/BR
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Universidade Federal de Goiás/BR
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Universidade de Brasília/BR
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