Razi Journal of Medical Sciences

  Background : Recognition of facial expression is an important factor in establishing a successful social interaction and deficit in this capability can cause defect in child’s social interaction. The purpose of this study was evaluation of emotional recognition training on enhancing perception of emotional expression of faces.

  Methods: This was a quasi-experimental pretest- posttest study without control group. Thirty preschool girl students aged 6 years selected with accessible sampling method participated in this study. Emotional recognition intervention was presented in a progressive method with a feedback for responses. T- Test and repeated measures were used for analysis.

  Results: Findings showed that emotional recognition can enhance ability of emotional recognition in happiness (p<0.0001), sadness (p<0.005) angry (p<0.001) and fear (p<0.000).

  Conclusion: Though the emotion perception is an implicit process with children learns it without direct education, present study found that emotional recognition could be trained with an explicit approach by therapists.