Young and Older Emotional Faces: Are There Age Group Differences in Expression Identification and Memory?

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-339

  Ebner, Natalie C ^a   Johnson, Marcia K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age differences; expression identification; face recognition; frequency of social contact; own age bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ETHNICITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; AGING; ANGER; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 66949158380     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015179     Document Type: Article

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