NEONATE AND INFANT EMOTION EXPRESSION PERCEIVED BY ADULTS

摘要: This exploratory study investigates the meaning that adults attribute to facial expressions of neonates and young infants using different types scales, tries assess whether adult judgments get more precise as older. We videotaped longitudinally six infants' in 5 everyday life situations at 3 days, 1 month, months old. Untrained decoders had activation pleasure/displeasure levels signaled by isolated expressions, recognize stimulus situations, a verbal label each expression. Our results showed inter-decoder agreement was higher when babies' were considered signals or pleasure/displeasure, decreased significantly be interpreted specific ascribed. The specificity accuracy answers, agreement, for older infants.