Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.

A myriad of emotion perception studies has shown infants' ability to discriminate different emotional categories, yet there has been little investigation of infants' perception of cultural differences in emotions. Hence little is known about the extent to which culture-specific emotion inf...

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Autores principales:	Liquan Liu, Mieke du Toit, Gabrielle Weidemann
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5487ae46e2d64f709bdbae0f5273fcdd2021-12-02T20:13:59ZInfants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257655https://doaj.org/article/5487ae46e2d64f709bdbae0f5273fcdd2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257655https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203A myriad of emotion perception studies has shown infants' ability to discriminate different emotional categories, yet there has been little investigation of infants' perception of cultural differences in emotions. Hence little is known about the extent to which culture-specific emotion information is recognised in the beginning of life. Caucasian Australian infants of 10-12 months participated in a visual-paired comparison task where their preferential looking patterns to three types of infant-directed emotions (anger, happiness, surprise) from two different cultures (Australian, Japanese) were examined. Differences in racial appearances were controlled. Infants exhibited preferential looking to Japanese over Caucasian Australian mothers' angry and surprised expressions, whereas no difference was observed in trials involving East-Asian Australian mothers. In addition, infants preferred Caucasian Australian mothers' happy expressions. These findings suggest that 11-month-olds are sensitive to cultural differences in spontaneous infant-directed emotional expressions when they are combined with a difference in racial appearance.Liquan LiuMieke du ToitGabrielle WeidemannPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257655 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Liquan Liu Mieke du Toit Gabrielle Weidemann Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
description	A myriad of emotion perception studies has shown infants' ability to discriminate different emotional categories, yet there has been little investigation of infants' perception of cultural differences in emotions. Hence little is known about the extent to which culture-specific emotion information is recognised in the beginning of life. Caucasian Australian infants of 10-12 months participated in a visual-paired comparison task where their preferential looking patterns to three types of infant-directed emotions (anger, happiness, surprise) from two different cultures (Australian, Japanese) were examined. Differences in racial appearances were controlled. Infants exhibited preferential looking to Japanese over Caucasian Australian mothers' angry and surprised expressions, whereas no difference was observed in trials involving East-Asian Australian mothers. In addition, infants preferred Caucasian Australian mothers' happy expressions. These findings suggest that 11-month-olds are sensitive to cultural differences in spontaneous infant-directed emotional expressions when they are combined with a difference in racial appearance.
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title	Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
title_short	Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
title_full	Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
title_fullStr	Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
title_full_unstemmed	Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.
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Infants are sensitive to cultural differences in emotions at 11 months.

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