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| Age differences in descriptions of emotional experiences in oneself and others | | Author(s) | Corinna E Löckenhoff, Paul T Costa, Richard D Lane |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 2, March 2008 |
| Pages | pp P92-P99 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Attitude ; Personal relationships ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors analysed language use to examine age differences in people's representations of their own emotions as compared with those of others. 381 participants aged 18-85 from Tucson, AZ and Marshall, MN read hypothetical emotion-enriching scenarios and described how they themselves and the social partners involved in the scenarios would feel. Compared with those of younger adults, older adults' descriptions involved a higher frequency of positive and a lower frequency of negative emotions. Older adults were also more likely to describe the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions, but less likely to describe the simultaneous experience of multiple negative emotions. Age effects showed similar patterns for participants' descriptions of their own emotions as compared to those of others. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080729203 A |
| Classmark | DL: DP: DS: 3KB: 7T |
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