Children’s Empathy and Their Perception and Evaluation of Facial Pain Expression: An Eye Tracking Study
The function of empathic concern to process pain is a product of evolutionary adaptation. Focusing on 5- to 6-year old children, the current study employed eye-tracking in an odd-one-out task (searching for the emotional facial expression among neutral expressions, N = 47) and a pain evaluation task...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02284/full |