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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2008 Dec 6;110(2):242–247. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.010

Table 1. Stimulus Validation: Proportion of Child and Adult Subjects (from Four Independent Samples) who Agreed on the Target Emotion in Preliminary Studies.

Adult Child
Forced-Choice
(N = 40)
Free-Response
(N = 40)
Forced-Choice
(N = 40)
Free-Response
(N = 40)
Happy 1.00 .99 .97 .91
Surprise .98 .95 .88 .65
Fear .88 .65 .67 .52
Sadness .92 .86 .91 .82
Anger .93 .69 .81 .81