Beyond "Happy, angry, or sad?": Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 968-982

  Riediger, Michaela ^a   Voelkle, Manuel C ^a   Ebner, Natalie C ^b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of poser; Age of rater; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions; Multi dimensional rating; Own age effect

Indexed keywords

ANGRY; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPPY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 80052472074     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.540812     Document Type: Article

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