Recognizing emotion in faces: developmental effects of child abuse and neglect.

By Seth D. Pollak, D. Cicchetti, Katie Hornung, A. Reed. Developmental Psychology, 2000

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Understanding interpersonal trauma in children: why we need a developmentally appropriate trauma diagnosis. (2012, background): “Studies have documented that maltreated children are either hypersensitive or avoidant in response to negative emotional stimuli or are likely to interpret positive emotions as ambiguous (Pine et al., 2005; Pollak et al., 2000).”
Not all emotions are created equal: the negativity bias in social-emotional development. (2008, background): “Moreover, work with maltreated children has been conducted with older children (e.g., 6 –12-year-olds in Pollak et al., 2000), by which age, heightened sensitivity to an expression is presumably no longer driven primarily by perceptual novelty but by a fuller, conceptual understanding of the…”
Effects of Early Life Stress on Cognitive and Affective Function: An Integrated Review of Human Literature (2010, background): “One might argue that this outcome could be attributed to the previously reviewed difficulties in recognizing emotions (Pollak et al. 2000).”
Neuroimaging of child abuse: a critical review (2012, background): “It is possible that the development of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience www.frontiersin.org March 2012 | Volume 6 | Article 52 | 3 these circuits may be affected by early stress experiences even in high-functioning abuse survivors.”