Kids as young as 18 months can tell when someone is “faking” their feelings when their emotions and expressions don’t align with an event.
New research from Concordia University, reported on by Medical Xpress suggest that infants 18 months and older have the ability to detect whether a person’s emotions are justifiable. These findings are significant in that they show that babies emotion recognition and social cognitive abilities are developed enough to understand how the meaning of an experience is directly linked to the expressions that follow.