A comparison of younger and older adults' self-assessment Manikin ratings of affective pictures

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 421-440

  Backs, Richard W ^a   Da Silva, Sergio P ^a   Han, Kyunghee ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIKINS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 24144434417     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730500206808     Document Type: Article

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