It is commonly assumed that a person's emotional state can be readily inferred from his or
her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This …

There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive
versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of …

Laypeople and scientists alike believe that they know anger, or sadness, or fear, when they
see it. These emotions and a few others are presumed to have specific causal mechanisms …

Research on emotion flourishes in many disciplines and specialties, yet experts cannot
agree on its definition. Theorists and researchers use the term emotion in ways that imply …

Previous research has shown that 6‐month‐olds evaluate others on the basis of their social
behaviors–they are attracted to prosocial individuals, and avoid antisocial individuals …

A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

Empathy reflects the ability to perceive and be sensitive to the emotional states of others,
often eliciting a motivation to care for their well-being. It plays a central role in prosocial …

Background: Intact emotion processing is critical for normal emotional development. Recent
advances in neuroimaging have facilitated the examination of brain development, and have …

Background Developmental psychology is a vibrant and rapidly growing field of psychology
that seems, with each passing year, to become more and more exciting, comprehensive …

How do children's early social experiences influence their perception of emotion-specific
information communicated by the face? To examine this question, we tested a group of …