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Age‐related differences in the acute pain facial expression during infancy

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The ontogenetic perspective on the development of emotional expressions in infants holds that infants' facial and vocal expressions evolved to serve crucial communicative functions in infancy and contribute to infants'… Click to show full abstract

The ontogenetic perspective on the development of emotional expressions in infants holds that infants' facial and vocal expressions evolved to serve crucial communicative functions in infancy and contribute to infants' survival. Infants' facial expressions should be contextualized by their own developmental stage rather than presuppositions from verbal populations. The overall aim of this paper was to examine age differences in the temporal patterning of elucidated facial expressions in the first minute following vaccination injections.

Keywords: related differences; differences acute; age related; age; pain facial; acute pain

Journal Title: European Journal of Pain
Year Published: 2019

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