Emotional Context Distorts Both Time and Space in Children
Résumé
According to a generalized magnitude system, the representation of time,
space and number relies on a common cognitive mechanism. However, in the
context of negative emotional stimuli, temporal durations undergo a subjective
overestimation, while numerosity judgments are underestimated. This
finding clearly challenged the existence of a generalized magnitude system. In
this study, we aimed to investigate whether angry faces biases both temporal
and spatial estimates compared to neutral faces in children aged 5 -
6-year-old and 9 - 10-year-old. Children were to judge as short or long either
the temporal interval or the distance separating two visual stimuli in a bisection
task. Overall, the study suggests that negative emotion with high arousal
(angry faces) leads to a distortion of both duration and distance. Such distortion
is reported early in development, even before the maturation of time
perception.
Domaines
Psychologie
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