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Disentangling The Negativity Bias: 7-9-Month-Old Crawling And Non-Crawling Infants' Responses To Fearful And Angry Expressions., Katherine C. Dixon
Disentangling The Negativity Bias: 7-9-Month-Old Crawling And Non-Crawling Infants' Responses To Fearful And Angry Expressions., Katherine C. Dixon
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Understanding the origins of the negativity bias in infancy and how it develops is important for building a complete understanding of emotion perception. The goal of the present study was to 1) examine attentional biases for emotional expressions in infants between 7-9 months of age, specifically the bias for fearful and angry expressions, 2) examine how the onset of crawling is related to these biases and what that suggests about the mechanism underlying emotion preference in infants, and 3) examine how infant expression production differs when viewing different facial expressions. Infant attention biases to fearful, angry, happy, and neutral facial …
Developmental Changes In Reasoning About Cross-Classified Individuals., Catherine H. Mcdermott
Developmental Changes In Reasoning About Cross-Classified Individuals., Catherine H. Mcdermott
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Social categories allow children to make inferences about novel situations, which can then guide their interactions with others. However, this process can be complicated because individuals often belong to many different, sometimes interrelated, social categories. Four experiments examine whether children and adults differ in their willingness to classify a person as holding two social roles (e.g., a mother and a daughter), and how this influences their reasoning. Specifically, this work will examine the influence of cross-classification on inductive inferences, trust in testimony, and knowledge evaluations. The aim of these experiments is to investigate whether children privilege certain roles when reasoning …