Children's recognition of emotion expressed by own-race versus other-race faces

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Shira C SegalMargaret C Moulson

Abstract

Adults are less accurate at recognizing emotions expressed by individuals from a different cultural background. However, the research with children is less clear; whereas some studies suggest better emotion recognition for own-race and own-culture faces, others have found no such relationship. The current study examined the influence of race on emotion recognition in children and adults who share a cultural background (i.e., Canadian). Based on previous studies, we hypothesized that participants would demonstrate better emotion recognition for own-race faces. We also hypothesized that emotion recognition would improve across the lifespan (from childhood to adulthood) and as a function of emotion, such that recognition would be better for happy faces than for the other emotions. Children (n = 69; ages 6-10 years; 41 female) and adults (n = 82; mean age = 19.94 years; 72 female) of Western European or South Asian descent were asked to complete a five-alternative forced-choice emotion recognition task (anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and neutral) in which expressions were displayed by White and South Asian faces. As predicted, adults performed better than older children, who performed better than younger children, and participant...Continue Reading

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Nov 25, 2020·Biological Psychiatry : Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging·Nourhan M ElsayedDeanna M Barch
Aug 25, 2021·The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP·Yuta Ujiie, Kohske Takahashi

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