Infants' use of conflicting emotion signals
Infants' use of conflicting emotion signals
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DOI：
10.1080/026999396380295
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Emde, RN
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作者：
Barrett, KC;Campos, JJ;Emde, RN
在这项研究中，我们研究了10个月大的婴儿对新玩具的反应是否受到实验者关于该玩具的冲突和非冲突、愤怒和快乐情绪交流的调节。两组变量被用来衡量婴儿的反应：“矛盾心理”（消极和积极的面部情绪信号的存在）和“不确定性”（频繁和/或长时间注视E，和/或不愿接近新玩具）。结果显示，在涉及愤怒的情况下，不确定性反应更高，无论这些情况是冲突的还是非冲突的。此外，与不冲突的愤怒信号相比，冲突条件会引起更大的矛盾心理。最后，有证据表明，顺序冲突——在明确的高兴或生气信号之后，紧接着是明确的其他情绪信号——可能会产生特别大的不确定性和/或矛盾心理。
In this study, we examined whether 10-month-old infants' reactions to a novel toy are regulated by an experimenter's (E's) conflicting and nonconflicting, angry and happy emotion communications about that toy. Two clusters of variables served as measures of infants' responses: ''ambivalence'' (presence of both negative and positive facial emotion signals), and ''uncertainty'' (frequent and/or prolonged fixation of E, and/or reluctance to approach a novel toy). Results revealed that uncertainty responses were higher in conditions involving anger, whether these were conflicting or nonconflicting conditions. In addition, conflicting conditions induced greater ambivalence than did nonconflicting, angry signals. Finally, there was evidence that sequential conflict-conditions under which a clear-cut happy or angry signal is followed by clear-cut signals of the other emotion-may produce especially great uncertainty and/or ambivalence.