The relative power of an emotion’s facial expression, label, and behavioral consequence to evoke preschoolers’ knowledge of its cause

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Children acquire emotion categories gradually (2008, methodology): “The scoring key used in this study was drawn from Widen and Russell (2003), who describe the development of a scoring key based on ratings of two judges blind to the source of the labels.”
Children’s Interpretation of Facial Expressions: The Long Path from Valence-Based to Specific Discrete Categories (2013, background): “…compare children’s understanding of emotion labels versus facial expressions, and this effect is especially strong for disgust (Camras & Allison, 1985; Russell & Widen, 2002b; Widen & Russell, 2004; see Widen & Russell, 2012a, for a review of the development children’s understanding of disgust).”