Emotion and aging: Experience, expression, and control

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 590-599

  Gross, James J ^a   Carstensen, Laura L ^a   Pasupathi, Monisha ^a   Tsai, Jeanne ^b   Skorpen, Carina Götestam ^c   Hsu, Angle Y C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT EFFECT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 0031448838     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.4.590     Document Type: Article

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