Reduced Negativity Effect in Older Adults' Memory for Emotional Pictures: The Heterogeneity-Homogeneity List Paradigm

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 644-649

  Grühn, Daniel ^a   Scheibe, Susanne ^a   Baltes, Paul B ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

age group differences; emotional memory; recognition memory; valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 34948910171     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.644     Document Type: Article

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