Age-Related Differences in Emotion Recognition Ability: A Cross-Sectional Study

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 619-630

  Mill, Aire ^a,b   Allik, Jüri ^a,b   Realo, Anu ^a,b   Valk, Raivo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b The Estonian Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences   (Estonia)

Author keywords

age related changes in brain structures; cognitive aging; facial and vocal emotion expressions; recognition of emotions; socioemotional selectivity theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONFUSION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHARACTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350132807     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016562     Document Type: Article

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