A review of infants’ and children’s facial cues’ influence on adults’ perceptions and behaviors.

Franklin, Prarthana; Volk, Anthony A.

doi:10.1037/ebs0000108

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“…Nevertheless, our results align with the broader context of the importance of nurturing and caretaking behaviors towards children (e.g. Aradhye, Vonk, & Arida, 2015;Franklin & Volk, 2017;Kringelbach, Stark, Alexander, Bornstein, & Stein, 2016;Luo, Kendrick, Li, & Lee, 2015;Picci & Scherf, 2016 Stolier, Hehman, & Freeman, 2017;.…”

Section: A Functional Basis Of First Impressionssupporting

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Testing the functional basis of first impressions: Dimensions for children’s faces are not the same as for adults’ faces.

Collova¹,

Sutherland²,

Rhodes³

2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Despite warnings not to "judge a book by its cover", people rapidly form facial impressions. In Oosterhof and Todorov's (2008) two-dimensional model of facial impressions, trustworthiness and dominance underlie impressions and primarily function to signal the potential threat of others. Here, we test a key assumption of these models, namely that these dimensions are functional, by evaluating whether the adult-face dimensions apply to young children's faces. Although it may be functional for adults to judge adult faces on dimensions that signal threat, adults associate different social goals with children, and these goals are likely to impact the impressions adults make of such faces. Thus, a functional approach would predict that the dimensions for children's faces are not threat focused. In Studies 1-2, we build a data-driven model of Caucasian adults' impressions of Caucasian children's faces, finding evidence for two dimensions. The first dimension, niceness, is similar (although not identical) to the adult dimension of trustworthiness. However, we find a second dimension, shyness, that is clearly dissociable from dominance (Study 3), and critically, is not focused on threat. We demonstrate that adults are sensitive to subtle facial manipulations of these dimensions (Studies 4-5) and that these impressions impact adults' behavioral expectations of children (Study 6). Finally, we show that niceness and shyness dimensions generalize to an independent sample of ambient images, demonstrating their robustness (Study 7). Our results suggest that social goals have the power to drive functional impressions and highlight the flexibility of our visual system when forming such inferences.

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confidence: 87%

Testing the functional basis of first impressions: Dimensions for children’s faces are not the same as for adults’ faces.

Collova¹,

Sutherland²,

Rhodes³

2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…In the present study, we extend these findings by applying a 2 × 2 design to assess the effects of maternal status and depression status by directly comparing the response (amygdala and affective) of four groups of women (mothers: depressed, not; non-mothers: depressed, not) to smiling infant pictures. In line with the salience hypothesis showing that young conspecifics, including human infants, are more salient to mothers than to non-mothers, 1,47,48 we hypothesise a greater amygdala and subjective affective responsiveness to smiling infant pictures in mothers compared to non-mothers.…”

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“…9 We also expected that non-mothers, compared to mothers, would show a reduced amygdala response to the unfamiliar infant because infants are considered less salient to non-mothers. 47,48 This did not occur. The two groups (non-PPD and non-MDD) showed similar amygdala responses to the infant stimulus condition.…”

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Amygdala and affective responses to infant pictures: Comparing depressed and non‐depressed mothers and non‐mothers

Dudin

Wonch

Davis

et al. 2019

J Neuroendocrinology

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In many mammalian species, new mothers show heightened positive responsiveness to infants and their cues when they give birth. As is evident from non‐human and human studies, the amygdala is a brain region implicated in both the maternal and affective neural circuitry, and is involved in processing socioemotionally salient stimuli. In humans, infants are socially salient stimuli to women, and mothers in particular. Neuroimaging studies investigating the maternal response to infant cues have identified infant‐related amygdala function as an important factor in maternal anxiety/depression, in the quality of mothering and in individual differences in the motivation to mother. The present study investigated the effects of maternal status and depression on the subjective affective response and amygdala responsiveness to unfamiliar infants using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Smiling infant pictures were used in a 2 × 2 design comparing four groups of women: mothers and non‐mothers, with and without depression (total of 101 women: postpartum depression [PPD] = 32, non‐PPD = 25, major depression [MDD] = 15, non‐MDD = 29). We undertook an anatomically defined region of interest analysis of the amygdala response for a priori defined group comparisons. We found that mothers rated infants more positively than non‐mothers and non‐mothers rated non‐infant stimuli (scenery) more positively than mothers. In the amygdala, we found that depression elevated response to smiling unfamiliar infants in mothers but had no effect in non‐mothers. Within the depressed groups, mothers (PPD) showed an elevated amygdala response to unfamiliar smiling infants compared to depressed non‐mothers. Hence, our results indicate that women with PPD show an enhanced amygdala response to affectively positive infant pictures but not to affectively positive (but non‐salient) pictures of scenery. Women with depression outside of the postpartum period show no change in amygdala responsiveness to either stimulus categories.

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“…На сегодняшний день, к сожалению, практически все исследования посвящены игротерапии для коррекции неконструктивного поведения у детей (P. Franklin & A.A. Volk [16], S.F. Ongley & T. Malti [25], M.F.H.…”

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Using the game therapy method in the process of correction of intra-family communication of pre-schoolers

Batenova¹,

Dolgova²

2019

P Sci Edu

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Использование метода игротерапии в процессе коррекции внутрисемейного общения дошкольников Введение. Выявлены особенности использования психологами метода игротерапии в процессе коррекции внутрисемейного общения дошкольников. Обосновано влияние формирующей и корригирующей функций игротерапии в ситуации нарушения детско-родительского отношений. Цель-подтвердить эффективность использования метода игротерапии в процессе коррекции нарушений внутрисемейного общения дошкольников. Методология. Проведены теоретический анализ, наблюдение, беседа; формирующий и констатирующий эксперименты. Применены пять методик: диагностика родительского отношения (А.Я. Варга, В.В. Столин); социометрическая проба «День рождения»; проективная методика «Рисунок семьи» (интерпретация Г.Т. Хоментаускас); тест тревожности (Р. Тэммл, М. Дорки, В. Амен); методика определения самооценки. Все этапы исследования (диагностический, коррекционный и контрольный) реализованы на базе детского сада № 457 «Ласточка» г. Челябинска. Результаты. Авторами обобщен опыт использования игротерапии в формирующих и коррекционных целях. Проведен комплекс диагностических методов, позволяющий определить возможные нарушения в детско-родительских отношениях. Составлен и проведен комплекс оригинальных игровых упражнений. Выявлен психотерапевтический эффект, который проявился в таких результатах, как снижение уровня тревожности ребенка, снижение явных признаков эмоционального конфликта и недовольства семейной ситуацией, повышение эмоционального предпочтения родителей, братьев, сестер и других родственников, что свидетельствует об улучшении взаимоотношений в семье, снижение числа родителей с авторитарным контролем и увеличение-с высоким уровнем принятия. Заключение. Проведенное исследование позволило авторам раскрыть возможности и подтвердить формирующую и корригирующую функцию игротерапии при возникновении нарушений внутрисемейного общения, а также для коррекции детско-родительских отношений. Оригинальный комплекс игровых упражнений авторы рекомендуют использовать на занятиях в специализированных группах, на фронтальных занятиях в детском саду и в домашних условиях, во время досуга.

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A review of infants’ and children’s facial cues’ influence on adults’ perceptions and behaviors.

Cited by 54 publications

References 220 publications

Testing the functional basis of first impressions: Dimensions for children’s faces are not the same as for adults’ faces.

Testing the functional basis of first impressions: Dimensions for children’s faces are not the same as for adults’ faces.

Amygdala and affective responses to infant pictures: Comparing depressed and non‐depressed mothers and non‐mothers

Using the game therapy method in the process of correction of intra-family communication of pre-schoolers

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