title: Children's understanding of nonverbal expressions of pride.
abstract: To chart the developmental path of children's attribution of pride to others, we presented children (4 years 0 month to 11 years 11 months of age, N=108) with video clips of head-and-face, body posture, and multi-cue (both head-and-face and body posture simultaneously) expressions that adults consider to convey pride. Across age groups, 4- and 5-year-olds did not attribute pride to any expression presented, 6- and 7-year-olds attributed pride only to the multi-cue expression, and 8- to 11-year-olds attributed pride to both the head-and-face and multi-cue expressions. Children of all ages viewed the postural expression as anger rather than pride. Developmentally, pride is first attributed only when several cues are present and only later when a single cue (head-and-face) is present.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. nelsonnf@bc.edu
authors.forename: Nicole L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Russell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003463:Cues; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication / Q000523:psychology*; D011187:Posture; D002666:Psychology, Child