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| Differences in the way older and younger adults rate threat in faces but not situations | | Author(s) | Ted Ruffman, Susan Sullivan, Nigel Edge |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 4, July 2006 |
| Pages | pp P187-P194 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Hazards ; Cognitive processes ; Attitude ; Evaluation ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Young and healthy older adults' ability to rate photos of faces and situations (e.g. sporting activities) for the degree of threat they posed were compared. Older people did not distinguish between more and less dangerous faces to the same extent as did younger adults. In contrast, no significant age differences were found in young and older adults' ability to distinguish between high- and low- danger situations. The differences between the two age groups on the face task were independent of age differences in older people's fluid IQ. Results are discussed in terms of emotion-recogntion tasks, and the socio-cognitive and neuropsychological theories of ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504216 A |
| Classmark | ENP: OK7: DA: DP: 4C: SD6: BB: 48: 7T |
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