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Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion by Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Clover Hill High School, Virginia

Cynthia R. Ellis

Virginia Commonwealth University

Alan S. W. Winton

Massey University, New Zealand

Nirbhay N. Singh

Virginia Commonwealth University

Jin Pang Leung

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Donald P. Oswald

Virginia Commonwealth University

Fifty children and adolescents were tested for their ability to recognize the 6 basic facial expressions of emotion depicted in Ekman and Friesen's normed photographs. Subjects were presented with sets of 6 photographs of faces, each portraying a different basic emotion, and stories portraying those emotions were read to them. After each story, the subject was asked to point to the photograph in the set that depicted the emotion described. Overall, the children correctly identified the emotions on 74% of the presentations. The highest level of accuracy in recognition was for happiness, followed by sadness, with fear being the emotional expression that was mistaken most often. When compared to studies of children in the general population, children with ADHD have deficits in their ability to accurately recognize facial expressions of emotion. These findings have important implications for the remediation of social skill deficits commonly seen in children with ADHD.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 22, No. 2, 128-142 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/01454455980222002


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