| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We human beings use facial expressions of emotions to fine-tune our attitude to the expressor. The present study investigated from when infants exhibit this ability by testing 4- to 14-month-old infants. The results indicated that (1) 4-month-olds are able to perceptually categorize happy faces and angry faces, respectively, which are displayed by different individuals, (2) that an individual who now shows a neutral face but once displayed a happy face is preferred by 6-month-olds over other individuals who once displayed an angry face, and (3) that 10-month-olds predict that an individual with an angry face do not help other people attain goals, whereas they do not predict that an individual with a happy face is more likely to help others than other individuals with an angry face.
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