Psychological Development and Education ›› 2005, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (4): 34-39.

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The Detection of Angry Expression in Children Aged 13 to 15 Years

GE Ji-yan1, GUO De-jun1, WANG Zheng2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037;
    2. No.50 High School Beijing, Beijing 100061
  • Online:2005-10-15 Published:2005-10-15

Abstract: This study recruited children aged 13 to 15 years to investigate the efficiency of facial expression by means of a visual search task.Participants searched displays of schematic faces and were required to determine whether the faces displayed were all the same or whether one was different.The results showed that:(1) When displays contained the same faces,children were slower in detecting the absence of a discrepant face when the faces displayed angry rather than happy expression.(2) When searching for discrepant face in otherwise ident ical faces,children were faster in detecting angry face than happy face.(3) The search slopes for angry targets were lower than for happy targets.These results suggest that the det ection of the angry face and the detection of the happy face were serial search.

Key words: angry expression, happy expression, visual search

CLC Number: 

  • B844.1
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