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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on November 11, 2009
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsp101
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Using Basic Behavior Research on Children’s Emotions to Inform Prevention Research: A Commentary on Pooley and Fiddick Social Referencing "Mr. Yuk"

Christina L Duncan, PhD1 and Allison G Dempsey, PhD2

1University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and 2University of Houston

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christina L. Duncan, PhD, Center for Children, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 519 Latham Drive, Lowell, AR 74725. E-mail: christina.lynn.duncan@gmail.com

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Pooley and Fiddick (see this issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology) recently reported on the outcomes of a series of developmental experiments. The primary purpose of the research was to investigate whether young children associate feelings of disgust with poison ingestion as a means of evaluating the developmental appropriateness of the facial expression depicted on "Mr. Yuk" stickers, a long-standing and widely used poison prevention program (Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2008Go). The article addresses an important concept in pediatric psychology, which is the prevention of unintentional injury or death among young children (Tercyak, 2008Go). Unintentional ingestion of poison accounts for >99% of poison exposure among children under the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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