A child with emotional competence has a head start in life. Scientific studies show that this ability actually:. Nevertheless, some children have a harder time developing emotional competence. We see this in children who were mistreated or neglected, as well as children who are anxious or who react negatively to change and novelty. As they grow, children get better at recognizing their own emotions, as well as those in others.
Emotions or feelings? Emotions over time. Decoding emotions in others. How to help your child. In an attempt to find an answer, 24 six-month-old babies took part in a study at the Geneva BabyLab. They were exposed to voices and faces expressing the emotions of happiness and anger. During a first phase devoted to auditory familiarisation, the babies faced a black screen and listened to a neutral, happy or angry voice for 20 seconds.
In the second stage -- based on visual discrimination lasting 10 seconds -- the babies were placed in front of two emotional faces, one expressing happiness and the other anger. The research team used eye-tracking technology to measure the baby's eye movements with great precision. They were then able to determine whether the time spent looking at one or other of the emotional faces -- or specific areas of the face the mouth or eyes -- varied according to the voice they listened to.
If the babies looked equally at both faces, it would not be possible to conclude that there was a difference. The results of the study revealed that six-month-olds did not have a preference for either of the emotional faces if they had already heard a neutral voice or a voice expressing anger. On the other hand, they spent longer looking at the face expressing anger -- especially its mouth -- after hearing a voice expressing happiness.
This visual preference for novelty on the part of six-month-olds testifies of their early ability to transfer emotional information about happiness from the auditory to the visual mode. Based on this study, we can conclude that six-month-old babies are able to recognise the emotion of happiness regardless of these auditory or visual physical characteristics. This research forms part of a project designed to examine the development of emotional discrimination abilities in childhood funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF.
Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Science News. Early skills for discriminating emotions The ability of babies to differentiate emotional expressions seems to develop in the first six months of life. Babies prefer what is new and surprising The results of the study revealed that six-month-olds did not have a preference for either of the emotional faces if they had already heard a neutral voice or a voice expressing anger.
Are 6-month-old human infants able to transfer emotional information happy or angry from voices to faces? An eye-tracking study. ScienceDaily, 11 April Babies make the link between emotions expressed vocally and facially. Retrieved November 10, from www. Researchers have studied brain activity during the processing of various emotional voices.
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