07/29/2022
Thank you to all the families who participated in our "Ready, Set, Emotion!" study. We have some preliminary results we'd like to share. First, we found large differences in how babies detect female versus male faces. We expect this to be because most babies have extensive experience with female faces. This leads to faster processing of females' faces. We found that at 767ms babies preferred to look at angry male faces, but preferred to look away from angry female faces. This was unexpected, but could be due to the familiarity of female faces for most babies - maybe they avoid looking to a face similar to their primary caregiver when it is angry. But angry male faces may be something they have little experience with and so it draws their attention.
We are still working on writing up our results for publication. They will probably be published in the next year, and we will post a link to the journal website once they are published. Thanks to all babies who participated!
