Recognition of Uncertainty in Emotional Inferences: Reasoning about Emotionally Equivocal Situations

Students in first, third, and sixth grade and college heard scenarios in which a peer experienced an emotionally equivocal or unequivocal event. Neither prompting children to consider alternatives nor reminding them of peers' individual differences produced greater discrimination between equivo...

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Published inDevelopmental psychology Vol. 28; no. 1; p. 145
Main Authors Gnepp, Jackie, Klayman, Joshua
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1992
Subjects
Age Differences
Anger
College Students
Elementary Education
Elementary School Students
Emotional Response
Emotions
Happiness
Higher Education
Sadness
Social Cognition
Social Development
Uncertainty
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Summary:Students in first, third, and sixth grade and college heard scenarios in which a peer experienced an emotionally equivocal or unequivocal event. Neither prompting children to consider alternatives nor reminding them of peers' individual differences produced greater discrimination between equivocal and unequivocal situations. (BC)
ISSN:0012-1649
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.28.1.145