The Effect of Social Cognition and Emotional Experience on Performance during a Narrative Storytelling Task
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This study explored how emotional expression and emotion understanding contribute to performance on a storytelling task. Given the cognitive nature of a storytelling task, it was hypothesized that negative emotions would inhibit performance, while understanding of the story characterâ s emotions would facilitate performance, and that these two variables would interact, to demonstrate a moderated relationship with the outcome variable. Six to nine year-olds engaged in a storytelling task, during which they were prompted to tell a story about a wordless picture book, and then identify the story characterâ s emotions. Automatic facial expression coding software, Emotient, recorded the emotions experienced during this task. The results demonstrated that anger and frustration negatively predicted performance, while emotion understanding positively predicted performance. The interaction between anger and frustration, and emotion understanding, was not statistically significant. The implications of this study will inform research in oral language fluency, social cognitive development, and self-regulation of emotion.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Stephanie Buono
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2618787740