Confusion patterns between vocal emotions are broadly stable across development: children miscategorize anger as fear, adolescents as sadness¶
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q3 i? Patterns of miscategorization are relatively similar across age groups, with anger most often mistaken for fear by children aged 5–8 and for sadness by adolescents. → Grosbras 2018
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Grosbras 2018¶
Grosbras, M.-H., Ross, P. D. & Belin, P. (2018). Categorical emotion recognition from voice improves during childhood and adolescence. Scientific Reports 8, 14791. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32868-3
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Descriptive analysis of confusion matrices computed for the four age groups and adults (Fig. 4 and Table 3), based on incorrect trials in the forced-choice task. Descriptive finding with no effect size printed, so impact is null.
"Anger was miscategorized most often as fear by children aged 5–8, and as sadness by adolescents."
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Related Claims¶
- Happiness is the easiest vocal emotion to recognize and anger the hardest, with anger and fear showing the greatest age-related improvement — related
- Testing procedure (individual computer with headphones vs small-group loudspeaker with paper response) does not affect vocal emotion recognition performance or the developmental trajectory — related
- The ability to identify basic emotions from non-linguistic vocal bursts improves significantly with age from 5 to 17 years — related
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Confusion patterns between vocal emotions are broadly stable across development: children miscategorize anger as fear, adolescents as sadness |
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Confusion patterns between vocal emotions are broadly stable across development: children miscategorize anger as fear, adolescents as sadness |
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2018 |
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2023 |
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