Age-Related Differences in Sensitivity to Facial Trustworthiness: Perceptual Representation and the Role of Emotional Development
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Baccolo, Elisa [1] ; Macchi Cassia, Viola [1]
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[1] University of Milano-Bicocca
University of Milano-Bicocca
Milán, Italia
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- Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 91, Nº. 5, 2020, págs. 1529-1547
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The ability to discriminate social signals from faces is a fundamental component of human social interactions whose developmental origins are still debated. In this study, 5-year-old (N = 29) and 7-year-old children (N = 31) and adults (N = 34) made perceptual similarity and trustworthiness judgments on a set of female faces varying in level of expressed trustworthiness. All groups represented perceived similarity of the faces as a function of trustworthiness intensity, but such representation becomes more fine-grained with development. Moreover, 5-year-olds' accuracy in choosing the more trustworthy face in a pair varied as a function of children's score at the Test of Emotion Comprehension, suggesting that the ability to perform face-to-trait inferences is related to the development of emotional understanding.
