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Gross, Dana; Harris, Paul L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1988
Forty-eight children aged four and six years listened to stories in which it would be appropriate for the protagonist to feel a negative emotion. Results indicated that six-year-olds were more accurate than four-year-olds in judging that real and apparent emotion would not coincide when the protagonist hid feelings. (RJC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Deception