Indian and English Children's Understanding of the Distinction between Real and Apparent Emotion

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1994.tb00822.x
• Publication Date: 2006-07-04T00:48:24Z
• Authors: Mary Sissons Joshi; Morag MacLean
• Keywords: Child Development

24 preschool and school-entry children in Bombay, India, Oxford, England, were tested on their ability to distinguish between real apparent emotion response stories involving child-adult child-child interactions. Younger Indian girls did better than younger English girls, the data reveal effects due age, culture, gender, story type which suggest a more social model of understanding has been proposed by other researchers using this methodology.