Children’s sustained attention to emotional facial expressions and their autonomic nervous system reactivity during parent-child interactions

The way individuals process socio-affective information is thought to impact their responses to social interactions, but research testing the relation between these processes is scarce, particularly among children. This study examined if children’s attention to socio-affective stimuli was associated with their autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity during parent-child interactions. Children’s sustained attention to facial expressions of...