Age-related differences in the ability to perceive sad facial expressions

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 418-424

  MacPherson, Sarah E ^a   Phillips, Louise H ^b   Della Sala, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Facial expressions of emotion; JACFEE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33846465018     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324838     Document Type: Article

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