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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Traditional emotion judgment tasks lack real-world relevance for children.
  • Children's daily lives involve complex social interactions for emotion understanding.

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  • To investigate children's emotion judgment skills using a novel, interactive social task.
  • To compare emotion recognition and expression abilities in different age groups.
  • To explore how task design influences the assessment of children's emotion knowledge.

Main Methods:

  • A socially interactive task involved children guessing objects based on experimenter's emotion expressions.
  • Children also generated facial expressions and labeled emotions elicited by objects and static faces.
  • Participants included younger children (4–6 years) and older children (7–9 years).

Main Results:

  • Children's ability to infer the cause of an emotion expression improved with age.
  • Age-related gains in emotion recognition did not correlate with the ability to produce recognizable facial expressions.
  • Emotion knowledge demonstration varied significantly across different assessment tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Interactive, ecologically valid tasks reveal broader emotion knowledge in children.
  • Emotion recognition and expression skills develop differently and are influenced by task context.
  • Future research should prioritize ecologically valid methods to accurately assess children's emotion understanding.