Abstract
CAMRAS, LINDA A. Children's Understanding of Facial Expressions Used during Conflict Encounters. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1980, 51, 879-885. 2 studies explored children's understanding of some facial expressions observed to occur during conflict encounters. The investigated expressions are hypothesized to influence the outcome of object disputes between children. Several of these expressions are components of complete facial expressions of emotion. In study 1, subjects were shown pictures of 1 target and 2 nontarget expressions and were asked to choose the expression which would be used by a child who was reluctant to relinquish a toy to another. Subjects tended to choose the target expressions. Study 2 assessed children's ability to associate the target expressions with specific emotions. Children's responses to complete facial expressions of emotion also were examined. Subjects were told stories portraying children's emotional responses to both conflict and nonconflict situations. With each story, subjects were shown either a triad of target expressions or a triad of complete facial expressions of emotions. Subjects were asked to choose the expression which would be used by the child in the story. For both types of triad, children tended to choose the expression related to the emotion portrayed in the story.
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