Children's Deliberate Control of Facial Action Units Involved in Sad and Happy Expressions.

Few attempts have been made since the pioneer work of Ekman et al. () to examine the development of the deliberate control of facial action units in children. We are reporting here two studies concerned with this issue. In Study 1, we investigated children's ability to activate facial action units i...

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Publicado en:Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 225 - 243
Autores principales: Gosselin, Pierre, Maassarani, Reem, Younger, Alastair, Perron, Mélanie
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2011
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        Analysis of variance
        Emotions
        Facial expression
        Motor ability
        Children
        Physiology
        Facial muscles
        Chi-squared test
        Comparative studies
        Abstracting & indexing of medical records
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          Analysis of variance
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          Facial expression
          Motor ability
          Children
          Physiology
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          Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling
          Facial muscles
          Chi-squared test
          Comparative studies
          Abstracting & indexing of medical records
          Statistical sampling
          Statistics
          T-test (Statistics)
          Video recording
          Data analysis
          Inter-observer reliability
          Repeated measures design
      ab: Few attempts have been made since the pioneer work of Ekman et al. () to examine the development of the deliberate control of facial action units in children. We are reporting here two studies concerned with this issue. In Study 1, we investigated children's ability to activate facial action units involved in sadness and happiness expressions as well as combinations of these action units. In Study 2, we examined children's ability to pose happiness and sadness with their face, without telling them which action unit to activate. The children who took part in this study were simply asked to portray happiness and sadness as convincingly as possible. The results of Study 1 indicate a strong developmental progression in children's ability to produce elementary facial components of both emotions as well as in their ability to produce a combination of the elements in the case of happiness. In agreement with prior research in motor development, several non-target action units were also activated when children performed the task. Their occurrence persisted throughout childhood, indicating limitations in the finer motor control achieved by children across age. The results obtained in Study 2 paralleled those obtained in Study 1 in many respects, providing evidence that the children used the technique of deliberate action to pose the two target emotions.
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