Older Adults' Recognition of Bodily and Auditory Expressions of Emotion

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 614-622

  Ruffman, Ted ^a   Sullivan, Susan ^b   Dittrich, Winand ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

age; bodies; emotion recognition; faces; voices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION; VERBALIZATION; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349424731     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016356     Document Type: Article

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