A influência da intensidade emocional no reconhecimento de emoções em faces por crianças brasileiras

• Published in: Universitas psychologica Vol. 15; no. 5
• Main Authors: Aguiar, Juliana Silva Rocha, De Paiva Silva, Ana Idalina, Rocha Aguiar, Carla Silva, Torro-Alves, Nelson, De Souza, Wânia Cristina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 18-05-2017
• ISSN: 1657-9267; 2011-2777
• DOI: 10.11144/Javeriana.upsy15-5.iier

The ability to recognize emotions in faces is essential to human interaction and occurs since childhood. Hypothesis: research using the morphing technique assume that children require greater or lesser intensity of emotional expression to perceive it. Objective: to examine the emotional recognition of faces in childhood, using a task with emotional intensity variation. Method: it was applied a Test of Facial Emotion Recognition for Children to 28 children between 7 and 11 years, of both sexes, which presented 168 faces manipulated by the morphing technique, of the six basic emotions. Results: age as a trend growth of the likelihood of success at the task; more right answers for happiness and worst performances for fear; and the emotional intensity increasing at 42% the chance of success by every unit of intensity. Conclusion: these findings are relevant because they show the recognition of emotions at different levels as a more sensitive method.