A Label Superiority Effect in Children's Categorization of Facial Expressions

By James Russell, Sherri C Widen. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The relative power of an emotion’s facial expression, label, and behavioral consequence to evoke preschoolers’ knowledge of its cause (2004, background): “There is also evidence that preschoolers can label facial expressions of the basic emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear) with above-chance accuracy (Denham & Couchoud, 1990; Harrigan, 1984; Markham & Adams, 1992; Russell & Widen, 2002a; Widen & Russell, 2003a).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, unknown): “These findings with infants are consistent with the emotion perception findings with young children showing that children are unable to recognize emotion in faces until they have learned the associated emotion concept (for reviews, see Russell & Widen 2002; Widen & Russell 2008a; 2008b).”
What’s in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception (2013, background): “Children demonstrate a “label superiority effect” in which they are more accurate at putting pictures of scowling faces in a box labeled with the word “anger” than in a box identified by a picture of another scowling face (Russell & Widen, 2002).”
Children acquire emotion categories gradually (2008, methodology): “There is evidence that labels are powerful cues to emotion (Russell & Widen, 2002a), especially for older preschoolers and for later-emerging emotion categories such as fear and disgust (Camras & Allison, 1985; Russell, 1990; Widen & Russell, 2004).”
Facial Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies (2010, background): “Intriguingly, young TD children also show improved FER performance in a labeling condition over matching (Russell and Widen 2002), and studies suggest that FER becomes more configural and less feature-based over time in typical development (Herba and Phillips 2004).”