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    "pk": 49824,
    "title": "Emotional Consensus Matters: Impact on Toddlers' Visual Exploration Behaviors",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Emotional feedback plays a critical role in guiding early behaviors, yet relatively little is known about how toddlers integrate emotions from multiple informants. The present study investigated how the consistency of emotional feedback influenced toddlers' visual exploration of novel objects. A total of 74 toddlers (12–24 months) viewed videos of eight adult informants displaying happy, sad, or neutral emotions toward unfamiliar objects. In Experiment 1, toddlers who received consistently sad feedback demonstrated reduced exploration. In Experiment 2, toddlers exposed to inconsistent emotional cues (e.g., 50% happy and 50% sad) exhibited greater exploration compared with those presented with consistent feedback. These findings suggested that toddlers' visual exploratory behaviors were shaped not only by the valence of emotional signals but also by the degree to which these signals were consistent. In particular, a mixture of emotional feedback may enhance toddlers' engagement with novel objects.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Emotion; Social cognition"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/81x56061",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Wei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Fang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McMaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Naiqi",
            "middle_name": "G",
            "last_name": "Xiao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "McMaster University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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