Older Adults' Decoding of Emotions: Role of Dynamic Versus Static Cues and Age-Related Cognitive Decline

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 788-793

  Krendl, Anne C ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive decline; Executive function; Social emotions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICIPANT PROFILE OF NONVERBAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; SADNESS;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CUES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650986823     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020607     Document Type: Article

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