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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults
Published on: October 19, 2014
Anger and time perception in children
Sandrine Gil1, Paula M Niedenthal, Sylvie Droit-Volet
1Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Psychology, CNRS, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Abstract:
The present study investigated age-related variations in judgments of the duration of angry facial expressions compared with neutral facial expressions. Children aged 3, 5, and 8 years were tested on a temporal bisection task using angry and neutral female faces. Results revealed that, in all age groups, children judged the duration of angry faces to be longer than that of neutral faces. Findings are discussed in the framework of internal clock models and the adaptive function of emotion.
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