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“They just couldn’t identify neutral accurately,” she said.
The study has limitations: The children were reacting to posed photos of the same youthful white actors. In real life, of course, faces are moving — something that limits the applications of numerous studies in this area. The children also misread neutral as happy about as often as they misread it as angry, which is different from some other studies in this area. And it’s possible that they will grow out of the tendency as they age, she acknowledged.
Still, the findings support a point other researchers in this field sometimes make: Those most in need of a benign interaction often have the hardest time recognising one.
A parallel phenomenon has been shown to sabotage people suffering from depression and anxiety.
“People with anxiety disorders are likely to see fear when it’s absent,” and to “misclassify neutral expressions as angry, fearful, or just generally negative,” said Marsh, the Georgetown professor, who recently published a book called The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between.
Article source: http://watoday.com.au/business/markets-live/markets-live-global-mood-lifts-20170822-gy20ff.html
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