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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5692549 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Yang Y Muentener Paul P Schulz Laura E LE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171023 45
The ability to understand why others feel the way they do is critical to human relationships. Here, we show that emotion understanding in early childhood is more sophisticated than previously believed, extending well beyond the ability to distinguish basic emotions or draw different inferences from positively and negatively valenced emotions. In a forced-choice task, 2- to 4-year-olds successfully identified probable causes of five distinct positive emotional vocalizations elicited by what adult ...[more]