Emotion Recognition in Kindergarten Children

Recognition and understanding of emotions are essential skills in nonverbal communication and in everyday social functioning. These are already evident in infancy. We aimed to compare how young children recognize facial emotional expressions from static faces versus vocal emotional expressions from speech prosody.Participants were 313 kindergarten children (162 girls, mean age = 51.01, SD 9.65 months; range 36-72). The design consisted of a...