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Presentation 2015-01-30 17:00
[Poster Presentation] Does concrete mental state language about emotions influence children's perception of emotions?
Yunhee Park, Shoji Itakura (Kyoto Univ.) HCS2014-93
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(in English) Previous researches have shown that concrete mental state language (cMSL) about emotions related to children’s prosocial abilities, such as emotion understanding and helping behavior. However, little is known about whether cMSL about emotions (cMSLe) has a direct influence on children’s perception of emotions and what factors involved in cMSLe contribute to that effect. Usually, cMSLe contains high causality and richness of the linguistic quantity in comparison with simple MSL about emotions (sMSLe). In this study, we make three kinds of MSL by manipulating causality and linguistic quantity of MSLe (high causality/high linguistic quantity: cMSLe; low causality/high linguistic quantity: ambiguous MSLe; low causality/low linguistic quantity: sMSLe) and investigated empirically whether cMSLe influenced children’s perception of facial expressions using auditory priming task. One of the three kinds of MSLe was presented acoustically as priming stimulus. After that, a happy or sad face was showed up on a monitor as target stimulus. Children were asked to judge what emotion of face they saw by pushing a happy or sad button. Forty one five-years-old children participated in the task and their response time and accuracy were analyzed. As a result, in the incongruent condition that emotional valences of priming and target were incongruent, the accuracy of perception of emotions was decreased significantly when participant heard cMSLe prior to target stimulus. There was not significant finding in aMSLe and sMSLe condition. To conclude, it seems that children’s perception of facial expressions is influenced by concreteness of MSLe. In addition, it is not richness of the linguistic quantity but causality of cMSLe might contribute to children’s understanding of facial expressions.
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(in English) Mental state language / Perception of emotions / Concreteness / Auditory priming task / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 440, HCS2014-93, pp. 115-120, Jan. 2015.
Paper # HCS2014-93 
Date of Issue 2015-01-23 (HCS) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee HCS  
Conference Date 2015-01-30 - 2015-01-31 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Bay Resort Hotel Shodoshima (Shodoshima, Kagaewa Pref.) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Psychology and Life-stage of Communication, etc. 
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Conference Code 2015-01-HCS 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Does concrete mental state language about emotions influence children's perception of emotions? 
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Keyword(1) Mental state language  
Keyword(2) Perception of emotions  
Keyword(3) Concreteness  
Keyword(4) Auditory priming task  
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1st Author's Name Yunhee Park  
1st Author's Affiliation Kyoto University (Kyoto Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shoji Itakura  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University (Kyoto Univ.)
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Date Time 2015-01-30 17:00:00 
Presentation Time 105 minutes 
Registration for HCS 
Paper # HCS2014-93 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.440 
Page pp.115-120 
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Date of Issue 2015-01-23 (HCS) 


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