Perception of Emotion and Response to Teachers' Expectancy by Elementary School Children
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 22 (1) , 27-34
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1968.22.1.27
Abstract
Within each of 6 elementary school grades, a randomly selected 23% of the children were reported to their teachers as showing unusual potential for intellectual gains. All Ss were also administered a task designed to measure the accuracy of their perception of vocal communications of emotion by male and female speakers. After 4 mo. the “special” children scoring high in accuracy of perception of emotion as expressed by a female speaker showed significantly greater profit from the teachers' favorable expectations than did those low in accuracy. “Special” male Ss high in accuracy in perceiving emotion in a male showed significantly less profit from the expectancy after 4 mo. but significantly greater profit after being away from the teacher who received the expectancy for a 1-yr. period.Keywords
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