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Infants’ Perception Of Emotion From Dynamic Body Movements, Nicole R. Zieber
Infants’ Perception Of Emotion From Dynamic Body Movements, Nicole R. Zieber
Theses and Dissertations--Psychology
In humans, the capacity to extract meaning from another person’s behavior is fundamental to social competency. Adults recognize emotions conveyed by body movements with comparable accuracy to when they are portrayed in facial expressions. While infancy research has examined the development of facial and vocal emotion processing extensively, no prior study has explored infants’ perception of emotion from body movements. The current studies examined the development of emotion processing from body gestures. In Experiment 1, I asked whether 6.5-month-olds infants would prefer to view emotional versus neutral body movements. The results indicate that infants prefer to view a happy versus …