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Each year, thousands of children are born with facial difference-abnormalities of the bones and tissues of the head and face that are present at birth or appear a few years later.Some conditions occur more commonly, such as cleft lip and cleft palate, while others, such as hemifacial microsomia, Treacher Collins, Apert, and Crouzon syndromes, are rarer.In addition to the emotional hardship of a different appearance and the attached stigma, some of these conditions pose special health concerns.

A resource that parents can turn to for help is Children with Facial Difference, the first comprehensive book to provide parents with up-to-date information and support.

Children with Facial Difference helps parents understand and cope with the challenges presented by their child's condition:Diagnosis; Causes and the genetic likelihood of recurrence; Emotional adjustment; Medical concerns and multi-disciplinary treatment approaches; Self-esteem; Family and community life; Speech, language, and hearing needs; Education; and Insurance issues, legal rights, and advocacy.

Each chapter of Children with Facial Difference includes parent statements, reassuring and useful bits of information and insights from parents of children with facial difference.These statements help alleviate feelings of isolation and provide comfort and support.With a foreword by Joseph E. Murray, M.D., a Nobel Prize winner in medicine and a pioneer in craniofacial surgery, this book also includes a glossary of terms, a reading list, a resource list of organizations, and an index. ... Read more

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A very comprehensive book; a "must" for parents/caregivers
This comprehensive book is a must for parents and caregivers of children with facial differences.It is truly a "Parents' Guide" in every sense. The contents are very well organized and lead the reader gently intothe myriad of issues that many parents will need to deal with, in raisingtheir special children. Topics that are covered include: variouscraniofacial conditions (Cleft lip and/or palate and syndromes such asApert, Crouzon, Treacher Collins, Hemifacial Microsomia andothers),adjustment and coping issues, medical concerns and treatments, speech,language, and hearing needs, education concerns, legal rights, healthinsurance and child advocacy. This book also includes an extensivereading list and resource guide.Medical terminology, that is inherent tothe subject matter, is also carefully explained and a glossary wasthoughtfully included.

For me and for several other parents of childrenwith facial differences,this book has become an essential handbook,inessence, to some of us, this book has become our "Bible."

Among the various titles that the author holds, the most impressivetitle, is that of "Mother" of a child with a facial difference. This is perhaps the reason that this book is so amazingly comprehensive. It is quite evident that the text was written with a great deal of carefulresearch and integrity.Too often, parents recieve erroneous informationregarding their child's condition.This book, however, is one thatparents, caregivers, and medical professionals can count on for accuracy. ... Read more

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Featuring true stories of people whose faces have been disfigured as a result of cancer, trauma, or a birth defect, Eye of the Beholder explores what it’s like to try and live an ordinary life behind a remarkable face.

Eye of the Beholder features the stories of Melissa, who has undergone forty-two surgeries in nineteen years to try to correct issues affecting her face since birth; Dr. Thomas Cowper, who specializes in crafting prosthetic eyes; and Jack Moyer, who lost his jaw as a result of cancer treatment; and many, many others, including family members of those with facial differences.

Although there are commonalities in every story, particularly regarding stigma, each person faces unique challenges and realizes different outcomes. These dramatic stories also feature medical and scientific advances, as well as the history of facial plastic surgery and face transplant. It is an excellent resource for people with facial differences and their families. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Neuropsychologia, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Sex differences in lateralisation have been examined frequently, but have found varying and contradictory results. The experiment presented in this paper examines the lateralisation of processing positive facial emotion in 276 right handed undergraduates (138 males, 138 females). All participants completed two behavioural tests of lateralisation: a handedness preference questionnaire and a chimeric faces emotion judgement task, which measured strength of lateralisation for the perception of positive facial emotion. A highly significant difference was found for the chimeric faces task only: males were more strongly lateralised than females, although both males and females tended to be right hemisphere dominant. The results suggest that females are more bilaterally distributed and hence have greater access to mechanisms located in each hemisphere. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Brain and Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Sex and sexual orientation related differences in processing of happy and sad facial emotions were examined using an experimental facial emotion recognition paradigm with a large sample (N=240). Analysis of covariance (controlling for age and IQ) revealed that women (irrespective of sexual orientation) had faster reaction times than men for accurate identification of facial emotion and were more accurate in identifying male faces than female ones, whereas men performed the same regardless of the sex of the face. However, there were no overall sex differences in accuracy. These findings suggest a limited role for sex in the perception of facial affect. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Cognition, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The assessment of individual differences in facial expression recognition is normally required to address two major issues: (1) high agreement level (ceiling effect) and (2) differential difficulty levels across emotions. We propose a new assessment method designed to quantify individual differences in the recognition of the six basic emotions, 'sensitivities to basic emotions in faces.' We attempted to address the two major assessment issues by using morphing techniques and item response theory (IRT). We used morphing to create intermediate, mixed facial expression stimuli with various levels of recognition difficulty. Applying IRT enabled us to estimate the individual latent trait levels underlying the recognition of respective emotions (sensitivity scores), unbiased by stimulus properties that constitute difficulty. In a series of two experiments we demonstrated that the sensitivity scores successfully addressed the two major assessment issues and their concomitant individual variability. Intriguingly, correlational analyses of the sensitivity scores to different emotions produced orthogonality between happy and non-happy emotion recognition. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the independence of happiness recognition, unaffected by stimulus difficulty. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Psychological Record, published by Psychological Record on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 4613 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The author examines the hypothesis that girls smile more often than boys. Topics include examination of photographs, gender differences, and sex role conformity.

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Title: SMILING IN SCHOOL YEARBOOK PHOTOS: GENDER DIFFERENCES FROM KINDERGARTEN TO ADULTHOOD.(Review)
Author: David K. Dodd
Publication: The Psychological Record (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Psychological Record
Volume: 49Issue: 4Page: 543

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Examines the various functions of masks around the world. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The current research investigated the hypothesis that, depending on an individual's cultural background, facial cues in different parts of the face are weighted differently when interpreting emotions. Given that the eyes are more difficult to control than the mouth when people express emotions, we predicted that individuals in cultures where emotional subduction is the norm (such as Japan) would focus more strongly on the eyes than the mouth when interpreting others' emotions. By contrast, we predicted that people in cultures where overt emotional expression is the norm (such as the US) would tend to interpret emotions based on the position of the mouth, because it is the most expressive part of the face. This hypothesis was confirmed in two studies, one using illustrated faces, and one using edited facial expressions from real people, in which emotional expressions in the eyes and mouth were independently manipulated. Implications for our understanding of cross-cultural psychology, as well of the psychology of emotional interpretation, are discussed. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Developmental Review, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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We review and provide empirical evidence to show that infants categorize and process male and female faces differently, with an advantage in processing female faces. To understand this asymmetry in categorization and processing of male and female faces, we evaluate three mechanisms influencing infant categorization of male and female faces: differential experience with female and male faces; early visual preferences for female vs. male faces; and range of physical differences among category exemplars. The paper concludes with a developmental trajectory for infant acquisition of face categories proposed within a framework that reflects current knowledge and theory in the infant categorization and face processing literatures. The proposed developments have important implications for the existing infant face perception literature and infant learning about females and males. ... Read more