Indian and English children's understanding of the distinction between real and apparent emotion.
24 preschool and 24 school-entry children in Bombay, India, and 24 preschool and 24 school-entry children in Oxford, England, were tested on their ability to distinguish between real and apparent emotion in response to stories involving child-adult and child-child interactions. Younger Indian girls did better than younger English girls, and the data reveal effects due to age, culture, gender, and story type which suggest a more social model of the understanding of emotion than has been proposed by other researchers using this methodology.
Joshi
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Psychology Unit, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
MacLean
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D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D006113:United Kingdom