Adult aging and the perceived intensity of emotions in faces and stories

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 190-199

  Phillips, Louise H ^a   Allen, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Emotion; Emotional dysfunction; Facial expressions of emotion

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 4544340234     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03327383     Document Type: Article

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