Emotion recognition tasks

Children's ability to recognize facial emotion (happiness, sadness, anger, and fear) was assessed during a visit to the research centre at the age of 3. The assessment involved a nonverbal emotion-matching task and a verbal emotion-labelling task. In the emotion-matching task, children had to match a face expressing a specific emotion with one of two other pictures expressing that same emotion. In the emotion-labelling task, children had to point out which of four presented pictures represented the emotion that was presented via audio.

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  • Generation R

  • 3 years
    •   C
    34 months - 4.7 years   From 2005-01-01 to 2009-12-31
    Mode of collection MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Analysis unit Individual
    Instrument name Emotion recognition tasks
    Measure name Emotion recognition: Computer tasks to assess facial expression recognition
    References
    Székely, E., Tiemeier, H., Arends, L. R., Jaddoe, V. W. V., Hofman, A., Verhulst, F. C., & Herba, C. M. (2011). Recognition of facial expressions of emotions by 3-year-olds. Emotion, 11(2), 425–435. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022587
    Tottenham, N., Tanaka, J. W., Leon, A. C., McCarry, T., Nurse, M., Hare, T. A., Marcus, D. J., Westerlund, A., Casey, B., & Nelson, C. (2009). The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants. Psychiatry Research, 168(3), 242–249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2008.05.006
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