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    "pk": 25829,
    "title": "A fine-grained understanding of emotions: Young children match within-valence\nemotional expressions to their causes",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Previous research suggests that the ability to make finegrained\ndistinctions among emotions emerges gradually over\ndevelopment. However, such studies have looked primarily at\nchildren’s first-person responses to emotional expressions or\nat whether children can match emotion labels to emotional\nexpressions. Relatively little work has looked at children’s\nability to link emotional responses to their probable causes.\nHere we ask two, three, and four year-old children and adults\nto identify the causes of vocal expressions. Because we were\ninterested in the ability to make nuanced distinctions, we\nlooked within a single valence and asked whether children\ncould distinguish expressions elicited by exciting, delicious,\nadorable, funny, and sympathetic events. Our results suggest\nboth an early emerging ability to distinguish within-valence\nemotions and rapid development; by four, children’s\nperformance mirrored that of the adults. This suggests that\nvery early in development, children have a rich representation\nof emotions that allows them to link distinct positively\nvalenced emotional expressions to their probable causes",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "emotion understanding; causal reasoning; vocal\nexpressions; toddlers; preschoolers"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sv1179j",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yang",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Paul",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Muentener",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tufts University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Laura",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Schulz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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}