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Children's Scales of Pleasure and Arousal.

The article focuses on a study conducted on Children's Scales of Pleasure and Arousal (CSPA) and their ability to provide judgments of emotions in children. Topics discussed include the role of CSPA in allowing young children to rate the pleasure perceived by them in the emotions witnessed by them;...

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Published in:Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 187 - 204
Main Authors: Widen, Sherri, Russell, James
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Sep2016
Subjects:
Analysis of variance
Arousal (Physiology)
Emotions
Facial expression
Nonverbal communication
Comparative studies
Statistical correlation
Drawing
Research methodology
Photography
Pleasure
Probability theory
Research funding
Statistical sampling
T-test (Statistics)
Mathematical variables
Effect sizes (Statistics)
Descriptive statistics
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on a study conducted on Children's Scales of Pleasure and Arousal (CSPA) and their ability to provide judgments of emotions in children. Topics discussed include the role of CSPA in allowing young children to rate the pleasure perceived by them in the emotions witnessed by them; the use of CSPA to study feelings expressed by facial expression in children; and the correlation between children's pleasure and arousal.