Publication
Age-Related Changes in Emotion Recognition Across Childhood
Accurately recognising others’ emotions is a fundamental social skill, relevant for navigating the social world from early childhood. Children’s ability to do represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated with a number of important psychosocial outcomes. Many individual studies have examined this, yet, very few attempts have been made to summarise this body of work quantitatively.
- Author
- Christopher Riddell, Milica Nikolić, Elise Dusseldorp and Mariska E. Kret
- Date
- 07 October 2024
- Links
- Age-Related Changes in Emotion Recognition Across Childhood: A Meta-Analytic Review
The ability to accurately recognize and interpret the emotional signals produced by other human beings is a vital social skill that is gradually honed throughout childhood. Typically, studies in the field refer to this ability as emotion recognition—the ability to infer the internal emotional state of an individual based on a series of external cues and differentiate this state from a list of other emotion categories. Many researchers have adopted vastly different approaches and paradigms to examine how children develop these skills, but only a few attempts have been made to analyze what is now a wealth of literature in a systematic way. The current article attempts to address this problem, providing the first comprehensive meta-analysis that estimates the extent to which age, task-related properties, and their interaction, influence typically developing children’s emotion recognition abilities.
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