The Development of Emotion and Motivation Throughout Childhood: Cross-Cultural Considerations and Implications for Educational Practices
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emotion recognition, educational motivation, childhoodAbstract
The ability to identify emotions and motivate oneself to learn are vital life skills with large-scale educational implications. This review paper covers existing cross-cultural studies on emotional detection for both visual and auditory cues as well as motivational studies. The culmination of these studies has found a clear in-group advantage when identifying both auditory and visual emotional cues; although, a difference in developmental time is identified. A biological perspective is assessed as negative emotions are more accurately identified and the ideas of a collectivist versus an individualist culture are explored as it is seen to impact both emotion and motivation. The educational implications of such findings are expressed, and the need for more cross-cultural work is strongly communicated.
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