Journal
EMOTION
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 544-548Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0016300
Keywords
affective style; thin slice; positive emotion; temperament
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH062320, R01 MH62320-04, R01 MH062320-04] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors investigate the claim that thin slices of expressive behavior serve as reliable indicators of affective style in children and their families. Using photographs, the authors assessed smile intensity and tactile contact in kindergartners and their families. Consistent with claims that smiling and touch communicate positive emotion, measures of children's smile intensity and warm family touch were correlated across classroom and family contexts. Consistent with studies of parent-child personality associations, parents' warm smiles and negative facial displays resembled those of their children. Finally, consistent with observed relations between adult personality and positive display, children's smiling behavior in the classroom correlated with parent ratings of children's Extraversion/Surgency. These results highlight the utility of thin slices of smiling and touch as indicators of child and family affective style.
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