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Understanding the Disgust-Anger Confusion: Developmental Evidence from Children's Emotion Recognition.

Marie-Pier Mazerolle1, Annie Roy-Charland1, Mia Richard1

  • 1Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada.

The Journal of Genetic Psychology
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Children confuse anger and disgust due to shared facial cues. Older children improve recognition by focusing on eyes, unlike younger children who scan broadly, aiding socio-emotional development.

Keywords:
Emotional facial expressionschild developmentdisgust-anger confusioneye-tracking

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Emotion science

Background:

  • Basic Emotion Theory (BET) posits universal facial expressions for core emotions like anger and disgust.
  • Disgust recognition is often poor, with frequent confusion with anger, particularly in children.
  • Existing theories attribute this confusion to shared visual features and attentional failures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the developmental trajectory of anger and disgust recognition in children.
  • To compare conceptual and perceptual-attentional mechanisms underlying emotion recognition.
  • To examine how gaze patterns relate to recognition accuracy across different age groups.

Main Methods:

  • Compared recognition accuracy and eye-tracking data in younger (3-5 years) and older (9-11 years) children.
  • Participants identified prototypical anger and disgust facial expressions.
  • Gaze patterns were analyzed to understand attentional focus during recognition.

    • Main Results:

    • Anger was recognized more accurately than disgust across all children.
    • Older children showed superior disgust recognition compared to younger children.
    • Younger children's broader facial scanning contrasted with older children's eye-focused attention; mouth-related cues increased confusion.

    Conclusions:

    • Persistent anger-disgust confusion stems from both conceptual and perceptual-attentional limitations.
    • Improved visual selectivity with age enhances emotion recognition accuracy.
    • Findings inform theories of emotion processing and potential interventions for socio-emotional skills.