Citation

Guarnera M, Hichy Z, Cascio M, Carrubba S, Buccheri SL. J. Genet. Psychol. 2017; 178(6): 309-318.

Affiliation

Department of Human and Social Sciences , Università degli Studi di Enna Kore , Enna , Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00221325.2017.1361377

PMID

28976285

Abstract

The authors sought to contribute to the literature on the ability to recognize anger, happiness, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, and neutral emotions from facial information. They aimed to investigate if-regardless of age-this pattern changes. More specifically, the present study aimed to compare the difference between the performance of adults and 6- to 7-year-old children in detecting emotions from the whole face and a specific face region, namely the eyes and mouth. The findings seem to indicate that, for both groups, recognizing disgust, happiness, and surprise is facilitated when pictures represent the whole face. However, with regard to a specific region, a prevalence for children was not found between the eyes and mouth. Meanwhile, for adults, would seem to detect a greater role of the eye region. Finally, regarding the differences in the performance of emotions recognition, adults are better only in a few cases, whereas children are better in recognizing anger from the mouth.

Language: en

Keywords

Adults; children; comparison; emotions; facial expressions; recognizing emotion from eyes; recognizing emotion from mouth