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Peer reviewedLewis, Michael; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Videotape study of preschool children, two to five years of age, and adults who posed the six facial expressions of happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness, and disgust. Poses were scored using the MAX system. Results showed that consistent differences between partial and complete poses were observed for negative expressions. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response
Peer reviewedWalz, Nicolay Chertoff; Benson, Betsey A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1998
A study investigated whether 73 adults with mental retardation had difficulty understanding emotion-descriptive concepts and whether that difficulty can be attributed to difficulty with abstract concepts. Participants performed better on nonemotion than emotion concepts measures. There were no differences between abstract and nonabstract concepts…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Aggression, Cognitive Ability
