Age and Motivation Predict Gaze Behavior for Facial Expressions

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 695-700

  Nikitin, Jana ^a   Freund, Alexandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adult development; Avoidance motivation; Emotional faces; Gaze behavior; Interindividual differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052895266     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023281     Document Type: Article

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