ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Adolescents Have Higher Accuracy in Emotional Recognition Following Acute Psychosocial Stress

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Negin Ghaffari
    University of Mississippi
  • Zahra Mousavi
    University of California, Irvine
  • Kelci Straka
    University of California, Irvine
  • Kate Kuhlman
    University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Acute psychosocial stress may influence how adolescents identify emotions.Adolescents completed an emotion recognition task before and after an acute psychosocial stressor.Adolescents identified both fear, anger, and happiness faster and with higher accuracy after exposure to acute stress.

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