Emotion experience and expression across the adult life span: Insights from a multimodal assessment study

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-317

  Magai, Carol ^a   Consedine, Nathan S ^a   Krivoshekova, Yulia S ^a   Kudadjie Gyamfi, Elizabeth ^a   McPherson, Renee ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect heterogeneity; Emotion; Facial expression; Narrative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; RATING SCALE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LEARNING; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH;

EID: 33747039482     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.303     Document Type: Article

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