Changes in the Sensitivity to Appetitive and Aversive Arousal Across Adulthood

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 668-680

  Keil, Andreas ^a   Freund, Alexandra M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

arousal; emotion; International Affective Picture System; ratings; valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349277165     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016969     Document Type: Article

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