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Distinct and similar patterns of emotional development in adolescents and young adults.
Bos, Dienke J; Dreyfuss, Michael; Tottenham, Nim; Hare, Todd A; Galván, Adriana; Casey, B J; Jones, Rebecca M.
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  • Bos DJ; The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
  • Dreyfuss M; Department of Psychiatry, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Tottenham N; The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
  • Hare TA; Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  • Galván A; Department of Economics, Zürich Center for Neuroeconomics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Casey BJ; Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Jones RM; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Dev Psychobiol ; 62(5): 591-599, 2020 07.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31802483
Adolescence is a developmental period of increased sensitivity to social emotional cues, but it is less known whether young adults demonstrate similar social emotional sensitivity. The current study tested variation in reaction times to emotional face cues during different phases of emotional development. Ex-Gaussian parameters mu, sigma, and tau were computed, in addition to mean, median and standard deviation (SD) in reaction times (RT) during an emotional go/nogo-paradigm with fearful, happy, and calm facial expressions in 377 participants, 6-30 years of age. Across development, mean RT showed slowing to fearful facial expressions relative to both calm and happy facial cues, but mu revealed that this pattern was specific to adolescence. In young adulthood, increased variability to fearful expressions relative to both happy and calm ones was captured by SD and tau. The findings that adolescents had longer response latencies to fearful faces, whereas young adults demonstrated greater response variability to fearful faces, together reflect how social emotional processing continues to evolve from adolescence into early adulthood. The findings suggest that young adulthood is also a vulnerable period for processing social emotional cues that ultimately may be important to better understand why different psychopathologies emerge in early adulthood.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Emoções Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Emoções Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article