Effects of age and emotional intensity on the recognition of facial emotion

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-79

  Orgeta, Vasiliki ^a   Phillips, Louise H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 38149107653     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701762047     Document Type: Article

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