Age-related changes in the integration of gaze direction and facial expressions of emotion

Emotion

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 555-562

  Slessor, Gillian ^a   Phillips, Louise H ^a   Bull, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Eye gaze; Positivity bias; Social perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STATUS; ADOLESCENT; EYE FIXATION; HAPPINESS; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955719571     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019152     Document Type: Article

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