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

• Published in: Developmental psychology Vol. 28; no. 1; p. 145
• Main Authors: Gnepp, Jackie, Klayman, Joshua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...