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| Interpretation of emotionally ambiguous faces in older adults | | Author(s) | Romola S Bucks, Matthew Garner, Louise Tarrant |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 6, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp P337-P343 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Cognitive processes ; Behaviour ; Mental ageing ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Research suggests that there is an age-related decline in the processing of negative emotional information, which may contribute to the reported decline in emotional problems in older people. The authors used a signal detection approach to investigate the effect of normal ageing on the interpretation of ambiguous emotional facial expressions. High-functioning older people indicated which emotion they perceived when presented with morphed facts containing a 60% to 40% blend of two emotions (mixtures of happy, sad and, or angry faces). They also completed measures of mood, perceptual ability, and cognitive functioning. Older and younger adults did not differ significantly in their ability to discriminate between positive and negative emotions. Response bias measures indicated that older people were significantly less likely than younger adults to report the presence of anger in in angry-happy face blends. Results are discussed in relation to other research into age-related effects on emotion processing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090605219 A |
| Classmark | DL: DA: DM: D6: 4C |
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