Developmental relations between emotion input and emotion perception

情绪输入与情绪感知之间的发展关系

• 批准号: 2333886
• 负责人: Vanessa LoBue
• 金额: $ 64.89万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developmental; relations; between; emotion; input

Understanding and interpreting emotional expressions is important for social interactions. Emotion understanding helps people respond to others’ needs, make predictions about social interactions, and even control emotional responses. Research shows that children who are better at understanding emotions are perceived as more socially skilled by their teachers, more likable by their peers, and are better able to navigate aggressive interactions. However, it is not well understood how infants and young children learn about the emotions of others, mostly because the emotions that infants and children see in everyday life are not well understood. For decades, researchers have assumed that children learn from the stereotypic emotional expressions they see in pictures. Recent research suggests that in contrast to what was long assumed, the emotional expressions people actually make in real life do not look a lot like the stereotypes. This means that we still do not understand what input infants use to learn about emotions, and how that input informs their emotional understanding. Thus, in order to advance the understanding of emotional learning, this project documents the emotions infants see in the real world during everyday social interactions, and how what they see translates into what they know about emotions. By characterizing the emotional input common of typically developing infants, this project aims to pave the way to better understanding of how atypical emotional environments, such as those associated with depressed, anxious, or abusive parents, shape maladaptive trajectories of emotional behavior. Project investigators plan to test infants at three different time points, at 6, 9, and 12 months of age. At each time point, researchers place a head-mounted camera on both the infants and their caregivers to record their emotional expressions during everyday interactions such as playing, feeding, and diaper changing. These video data are first used to (i) describe infants’ exposure to naturalistic emotion expressions between the ages of 6 and 12 months, and (ii) describe how caregivers respond to the emotional information provided by the infants themselves (such as crying, laughing, etc.). Next, the research team assesses whether emotional information provided by caregivers (emotional facial expressions and language) predicts infants’ performance on several tasks that measure what infants know about emotions. The outcome of this project is to provide insight into how naturalistic emotional information available to infants during everyday social interactions helps shape how infants learn about emotions over time. This project provides new insights into the natural input for the early development of emotion perception in infancy and lays the groundwork for research on the development of abstract emotion categories.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

理解和解释情绪表达对于社交互动非常重要。情绪理解有助于人们响应他人的需求，对社交互动进行预测，甚至控制情绪反应。研究表明，更善于理解情绪的孩子被认为具有更强的社交能力。然而，目前尚不清楚婴儿和幼儿如何了解他人的情绪，这主要是因为婴儿和儿童在日常生活中看到的情绪是不同的。几十年来，研究人员并没有很好地理解。假设孩子们从他们在图片中看到的刻板情感表达中学习，与长期以来的假设相反，人们在现实生活中实际做出的情感表达看起来并不像刻板印象。不了解婴儿使用什么输入来学习情绪，以及该输入如何影响他们的情绪理解因此，为了促进对情绪学习的理解，该项目记录了婴儿在日常社交互动中在现实世界中看到的情绪，以及他们所看到的如何转化为他们所知道的通过描述典型发育婴儿常见的情绪输入，该项目旨在为更好地理解非典型情绪环境（例如与抑郁、焦虑或虐待父母相关的环境）如何形成适应不良的情绪行为轨迹铺平道路。项目研究人员计划在 6、9 和 12 个月大的三个不同时间点对婴儿进行测试。在每个时间点，研究人员都会在婴儿及其护理人员身上放置一个头戴式摄像头，记录他们每天的情绪表达。这些视频数据首先用于 (i) 描述 6 至 12 个月大的婴儿接触自然情绪表达的情况，以及 (ii) 描述护理人员对情绪信息的反应。接下来，研究小组评估了照顾者提供的情绪信息（情绪面部表情和语言）是否可以预测婴儿在衡量婴儿对情绪的了解的多项任务中的表现。结果该项目的目的是深入了解婴儿在日常社交互动中获得的自然情绪信息如何帮助婴儿随着时间的推移了解情绪。该项目为婴儿期情绪感知的早期发展的自然输入提供了新的见解，并奠定了基础。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。