Figure 4.
Results of robust bootstrapped mediation analyses examining potential mediators of emotion concept development. a) Verbal knowledge significantly mediated the relationship between age and arousal focus, over and above fluid reasoning and shading focus from the perceptual similarities control task. No other potential mediators were significant. b) The development of emotional bidimensionality could be explained by a sequential mediation: Verbal knowledge increased with age, which led to increases in arousal focus, which in turn led to increased emotional bidimensionality. All mediation analyses utilized robust regressions, 10,000 resamples, and BCa CIs.