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Children’s understanding of pretend emotions

This preliminary study aims to investigate children’s ability to understand that the emotional expressions that occur in pretend play do not necessarily coincide with the emotions people feel inside. Previous research has found that children aged 4 and 6 have difficulty to distinguish between the external and the internal emotion of a character who pretends an emotion. In the present work, thirteen 4-year-olds and eight 6-year-olds were administered stories in which a character simulated an emotion. Differently from previous research, the questions addressed to the children did not focus on the distinction external/internal emotion but on the distinction between real/pretend emotion. Furthermore, since previous research has suggested that children may understand better selfpretence than pretence of others, the participants in our study were engaged in a pretence situation where they had to pretend to be happy. The results obtained showed that, contrary to previous research, most 4- and 6-year-olds realize that pretend emotions may not be real, and this was true both for self-pretence and for the pretence of others

Revista INFAD de Psicología : International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 2011, vol. 1, núm. 1, p. 111-118

Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia, Adolescencia y Mayores (INFAD)

Autor: Sidera Caballero, Francesc
Amadó Codony, Anna
Data: 2011
Resum: This preliminary study aims to investigate children’s ability to understand that the emotional expressions that occur in pretend play do not necessarily coincide with the emotions people feel inside. Previous research has found that children aged 4 and 6 have difficulty to distinguish between the external and the internal emotion of a character who pretends an emotion. In the present work, thirteen 4-year-olds and eight 6-year-olds were administered stories in which a character simulated an emotion. Differently from previous research, the questions addressed to the children did not focus on the distinction external/internal emotion but on the distinction between real/pretend emotion. Furthermore, since previous research has suggested that children may understand better selfpretence than pretence of others, the participants in our study were engaged in a pretence situation where they had to pretend to be happy. The results obtained showed that, contrary to previous research, most 4- and 6-year-olds realize that pretend emotions may not be real, and this was true both for self-pretence and for the pretence of others
Format: application/pdf
ISSN: 0214-9877
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/9728
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia, Adolescencia y Mayores (INFAD)
Col·lecció: Reproducció digital del document publicat a: http://infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/2011/n1/volumen1/INFAD_010123_111-118.pdf
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És part de: Revista INFAD de Psicología : International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 2011, vol. 1, núm. 1, p. 111-118
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URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Matèria: Filosofia de la ment
Philosophy of mind
Emocions en els infants
Emotions in children
Títol: Children’s understanding of pretend emotions
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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