Avoiding threat in late adulthood: Testing two life span theories of emotion

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 449-472

  Orgeta, Vasiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961092084     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.590759     Document Type: Article

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