Emotional expression and vocabulary learning in adults and children
Emotional expression and vocabulary learning in adults and children
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DOI：
10.1080/02699931.2012.724012
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Sander, David
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作者：
Clement, Fabrice;Bernard, Stephane;Sander, David
我们对世界的许多了解并不是通过第一手的观察，而是通过别人的见证。一个关键问题是要知道人们使用哪种线索来评估他人提供的信息。在这种情况下，最近对成人和儿童的研究强调，线人的面部表情可能发挥重要作用。为了测试对方的情绪在词汇学习中的重要性，我们使用了两个表达快乐，愤怒或中性情绪的化身，为一个未知的物体提出不同的语言标签。实验1显示，成年参与者显着更有可能比机会选择的标签所建议的化身显示一个快乐的脸，而不是标签所建议的化身显示一个愤怒的脸。实验2扩展了这些结果，表明成人和3岁的儿童都表现出这种效果。这些数据表明，决策有关新获得的信息取决于线人的情绪表达，这一发现是一致的想法，即行为意图有面部签名，可以用来检测另一个人的意图合作。
A great deal of what we know about the world has not been learned via first-hand observation but thanks to others' testimony. A crucial issue is to know which kind of cues people use to evaluate information provided by others. In this context, recent studies in adults and children underline that informants' facial expressions could play an essential role. To test the importance of the other's emotions in vocabulary learning, we used two avatars expressing happiness, anger or neutral emotions when proposing different verbal labels for an unknown object. Experiment 1 revealed that adult participants were significantly more likely than chance to choose the label suggested by the avatar displaying a happy face over the label suggested by the avatar displaying an angry face. Experiment 2 extended these results by showing that both adults and children as young as 3 years old showed this effect. These data suggest that decision making concerning newly acquired information depends on informant's expressions of emotions, a finding that is consistent with the idea that behavioural intents have facial signatures that can be used to detect another's intention to cooperate.