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Cross-Cultural Validity of the Emotion Matching Task

2019

Objectives We aimed to provide evidence of the cross-cultural validity of the Emotion Matching Task (EMT), as a measure of emotion knowledge in preschool children in different cultures, namely, the United States, Italy, and Spain. In particular, we analyzed: (1) the psychometric properties of the scale in each of the three subsamples; (2) the relations between sex, age, verbal ability, and EK, in the overall sample and in the three different cultures; (3) the pattern of acquisition of the various dimensions of emotion knowledge in the overall sample and in the three different countries. Methods Participants were 500 children from Spain (N = 180), the United States (N = 158), and Italy (N = …

050103 clinical psychologyMatching (statistics)05 social sciencesPsychological interventionEmotion knowledge Cross-cultural Preschool EMT ValiditySample (statistics)Test (assessment)Emotional competenceDevelopmental psychologySettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneScale (social sciences)Peabody Picture Vocabulary TestDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyCross-cultural0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLife-span and Life-course StudiesPsychology050104 developmental & child psychology
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Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

2018

This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of implicatures: type Q (or scalar: “what is not referred to does not occur”); type I (“by default, it is not necessary to say what can be assumed”); and type M (“if someone is expressing something in a not very simple or marked way, it is because s/he is describing a situation that is not very typical, frequent, or prototypical”). In addition to the ASD group (n = 22), two comparison groups were utilized: a group matched on chronological age with …

lcsh:BF1-99005 social sciencesautism spectrum disorderChronological agemedicine.disease050105 experimental psychologyComprehensionlcsh:Psychologynon-literal meaningimplicatureschildrenAutism spectrum disorderLevinson modelPeabody Picture Vocabulary TestmedicinePsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesOverall performancePsychologyHeuristicsGeneral PsychologyImplicature050104 developmental & child psychologyCognitive psychologyOriginal ResearchFrontiers in Psychology
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