The autonomic signature of guilt in children: a thermal infrared imaging study
| Autor: | Tiziana Aureli, Sjoerd J. H. Ebisch, Daniela Bafunno, Arcangelo Merla, Daniela Cardone, Vittorio Gallese, Stephanos Ioannou, Helene Alexi Ioannides, Barbara Manini, Gian Luca Romani |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Spectrophotometry Infrared media_common.quotation_subject Science Emotions Context (language use) Autonomic Nervous System 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Self-conscious emotions Perception Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Early childhood media_common Multidisciplinary 05 social sciences Temperature Autonomic nervous system Distress Moral development Feeling Child Preschool Guilt Medicine Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e79440 (2013) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | So far inferences on early moral development and higher order self conscious emotions have mostly been based on behavioral data. Emotions though, as far as arguments support, are multidimensional notions. Not only do they involve behavioral actions upon perception of an event, but they also carry autonomic physiological markers. The current study aimed to examine and characterise physiological signs that underlie self-conscious emotions in early childhood, while grounding them on behavioral analyses. For this purpose, the “mishap paradigm” was used as the most reliable method for evoking feelings of “guilt” in children and autonomic facial temperature variation were detected by functional Infrared Imaging (fIRI). Fifteen children (age: 39–42 months) participated in the study. They were asked to play with a toy, falsely informed that it was the experimenter's “favourite”, while being unaware that it was pre-planned to break. Mishap of the toy during engagement caused sympathetic arousal as shown by peripheral nasal vasoconstriction leading to a marked temperature drop, compared to baseline. Soothing after the mishap phase induced an increase in nose temperature, associated with parasympathetic activity suggesting that the child's distress was neutralized, or even overcompensated. Behavioral analyses reported signs of distress evoked by the paradigm, backing up the thermal observation. The results suggest that the integration of physiological elements should be crucial in research concerning socio-emotional development. fIRI is a non invasive and non contact method providing a powerful tool for inferring early moral emotional signs based on physiological observations of peripheral vasoconstriction, while preserving an ecological and natural context. |
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