Infant responses to adult happy and sad vocal and facial expressions during face-to-face interactions

被引:21
作者
D'Entremont, B [1 ]
Muir, D [1 ]
机构
[1] Queens Univ, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
face-voice perception; social interactions; infant attention and affect; 5-month-olds;
D O I
10.1016/S0163-6383(00)00021-7
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 [发展与教育心理学];
摘要
We examined 5-month-olds' responses to adult facial versus vocal displays of happy and sad expressions during face-to-face social interactions in three experiments. Infants interacted with adults in either happy-sad-happy or happy-happy-happy sequences. Across experiments, either facial expressions were present while presence/absence of vocal expressions was manipulated or visual access to facial expressions was blocked but vocal expressions were present throughout. Both visual attention and infant affect were recorded. Although infants looked more when vocal expressions were present, they smiled significantly more to happy than to sad facial expressions regardless of presence or absence of the voice. In contrast, infants showed no evidence of differential responding to voices when faces were obscured; their smiling and visual attention simply declined over time. These results extend findings from non-social contexts to social interactions and also indicate that infants may require facial expressions to be present to discriminate among adult vocal expressions of affect.
引用
收藏
页码:527 / 539
页数:13
相关论文
共 38 条
[1]
[Anonymous], AFFECTIVE DEV INFANC
[2]
Bakeman R., 1986, OBSERVING INTERACTIO, VSecond
[3]
CAO Y, 1993, 60 M SOC RES CHILD D
[4]
CAO Y, 1992, INFANT BEHAV DEV, V15, P334
[5]
CARON AJ, 1988, CHILD DEV, V59, P604, DOI 10.2307/1130560
[6]
FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSED AND NONDEPRESSED MOTHER INFANT PAIRS AT 2 MONTHS [J].
COHN, JF ;
CAMPBELL, SB ;
MATIAS, R ;
HOPKINS, J .
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1990, 26 (01) :15-23
[7]
COHN JF, 1982, SOCIAL INTERCHANGE I, P59
[8]
Five-month-olds' attention and affective responses to still-faced emotional expressions [J].
D'entremont, B ;
Muir, DW .
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT, 1997, 20 (04) :563-568
[9]
De Haan M., 1998, Perceptual development: visual, auditory, and speech perception in infancy, P287
[10]
DEFRUYT F, 1992, J PSYCHOL, V27, P244