Perception of emotions by accepted and rejected children

Performance of healthy subjects on an ecologically valid test for social cognition: The short, Dutch Version of The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)

“…Previous studies have shown that, even in subjects without neurological disorders, social cognition abilities and daily-life social functioning vary and can be related to each other. For instance, in childhood and adolescence, better facial affect recognition abilities are significantly related to being more socially competent and being more popular (Custrini & Feldman, 1989;Edwards et al, 1984;Philippot & Feldman, 1990;Vosk et al, 1983). Despite these correlations in the healthy sample, in the small patient group no significant relation was found between TASITshort and the BAFQ self-report measure.…”

“…This is a challenge because there is also variability in social cognitive abilities within the healthy population, for instance in facial affect recognition (Bate, Parris, Haslam, & Kay, 2010;Mill, Allik, Realo, & Valk, 2009;Morrison & Bellack, 1981). Furthermore, in healthy children and adolescents it has been found that better facial affect recognition was correlated to being more socially competent and being more popular (Custrini & Feldman, 1989;Edwards, Manstead, & Macdonald, 1984;Philippot & Feldman, 1990;Vosk, Forehand, & Figueroa, 1983). Factors of influence on facial affect recognition ability are gender (Kring & Gordon, 1998) and age (Herba & Phillips, 2004;Mill et al, 2009).…”

Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

“…Correct recognition of emotional facial expressions plays a major role in the development and regulation of interpersonal relationships. Marked differences in the ability to correctly perceive displayed emotion have been observed between accepted and rejected children [32]. A study of 196 children aged 8-11 years demonstrated a correlation between good emotional facial expressions decoding abilities and high sociometric status [33].…”

The influence of provocateurs’ emotion displays on the social information processing of children varying in social adjustment and age

“…Others' emotion expressions provide information about motives and intentions, and these cues also inXuence reactions in the observer. Although emotion display rules (Saarni, 1999) aVect the utility of these cues somewhat, there is evidence indicating that sensitivity to emotion contributes to adaptive social behavior (e.g., Denham, McKinley, Couchoud, & Holt, 1990;Garner, 1996;Hubbard & Coie, 1994;Mostow, Izard, Fine, & Trentacosta, 2002;Vosk, Forehand, & Figueroa, 1983;Walden & Field, 1990). Children with disruptive behavior problems have deWcits in the detection of emotion cues, in the situationally appropriate expression of emotion (Arsenio, Cooperman, & Lover, 2000;Arsenio & Lover, 1997;Casey, 1996;Casey & Schlosser, 1994), in empathy (e.g., Cohen & Strayer, 1996), and in knowledge about the situational determinants of emotion (e.g., Arsenio & Fleiss, 1996;Cook, Greenberg, & Kusche, 1994).…”