How does our interpretation of emotional nonverbal cues change with age? Our research has shown that the capacity to interpret expressions of emotion continues to develop throughout adolescence, particularly when it comes to vocal prosody. We have also investigated how variations in emotional intensity might impact emotion recognition.
Morningstar, M., Nelson, E.E., & Dirks, M.A. (2018). Maturation of vocal emotion recognition: Insights from the developmental and neuroimaging literature. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 90, 221-230. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.019
Morningstar, M., Ly, V.Y., Feldman, L., & Dirks, M.A. (2018). Mid-Adolescents’ and Adults’ Recognition of Vocal Cues of Emotion and Social Intent: Differences by Expression and Speaker Age. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42(2), 237-251. doi: 10.1007/s10919-018-0274-7
Morningstar, M., Venticinque, J., & Nelson, E.E. (2018). Differences in adult and adolescent listeners’ ratings of valence and arousal in emotional prosody. Cognition & Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1561422
Morningstar, M., Gilbert, A.C., Burdo, J., Leis, M., & Dirks, M.A. (2021). Recognition of vocal socio-emotional expressions at varying levels of emotional intensity. Emotion, 21(7), 1570-1575. doi: 10.1037/emo0001024
Woodard, K., Plate, R.C., Morningstar, M., Wood, A., & Pollak, S.D. (2021). Categorization of vocal emotion cues depends on distributions of input. Affective Science, 2, 301-310. doi: 10.1007/s42761-021-00038-w