Recognizing facial expression of emotions : assessment, training and generalization in mentally retarded persons

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Recognizing facial expression of emotions : assessment, training and generalization in mentally retarded persons

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Being able to recognize facial expressions of emotion is an important social skill. For the majority of people this skill is learnt incidentally in social situations. However for a small minority of people, such as the mentally retarded, this skill needs to be systematically taught. The present studies investigated the abilities of mentally retarded persons in recognizing six basic facial expressions of emotion (happiness, sadness, disgust, surprise, fear and anger.) A series of four studies ...

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Research paper

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

1986

Creator

McAlpine, Christopher

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/103025

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Facial expression / Emotions / People with mental disabilities

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