Adults' free-form identification of emotions from children's descriptions of their antecedents: a quantitative analysis.
50 adult subjects identified resultant emotions for 28 children's statements of antecedents to emotion in an open-ended task. Responses were scored along the dimensions of evaluation and activation by the Dictionary of Affect in Language, and a priori expectations with respect to evaluation (happy, proud, comfortable > sad, afraid, guilty, angry) and activation (sad, comfortable < angry, happy, proud, afraid, guilty) were confirmed. The importance of a dimensional approach to the study of emotion is highlighted in the discussion.
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Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012107:Research Design; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary