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| Autonomic, subjective and expressive responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese Americans and European Americans | | Author(s) | Jeanne L Tsai, Robert W Levenson, Laura L Carstensen |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 4, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 684-693 |
| Keywords | White people ; Chinese people ; Emotions ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Previously, the authors found that during idiosyncratic emotional events (relived emotions, discussions about marital conflict), older European Americans demonstrated smaller changes in cardiovascular responding than their younger counterparts. This study examines whether such differences held when the emotional events were standardised, and whether they extend to another cultural group. 48 old (70-85 years) and 48 young (20-34 years) European Americans and Chinese Americans viewed sad and amusing film clips in the laboratory while their cardiovascular, subjective and behavioural responses were measured. Consistent with previous findings, older participants showed smaller changes in cardiovascular responding than did younger participants during the film clips. Consistent with earlier reports, old and young participants did not differ in most subjective and behavioural responses to the films. No cultural differences were found. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010312207 A |
| Classmark | TKA: TKL: DL: BB: SD6: 3KA: 7T |
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