Effects of Aging on Experimentally Instructed Detached Reappraisal, Positive Reappraisal, and Emotional Behavior Suppression

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 890-900

  Shiota, Michelle N ^a   Levenson, Robert W ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; emotion; emotion regulation; psychophysiology; reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; STIMULUS; THEORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149112272     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017896     Document Type: Article

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