The Importance of Understanding Emotional Expressions in Children

Darwin's proposal was that babies are quite receptive and even quite competent from an early age at interpreting such facial expressions in any case whether they can do it in infancy. My own interest has been about the extent to which children's understanding of emotion surely goes beyond these very basic set so for example when we talk about being disappointed or relieved it's not as if there's a particular facial expression which identifies somebody who's been who's who's relieved as supposed to be happy. I think what we see then and there's quite a lot of evidence showing this that as children get older they get better and better at realizing that how somebody feels depends upon the way in which that particular person appraises that

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