Age differences in emotional reactions: Arousal and age-relevance count

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 966-978

  Streubel, Berit ^a   Kunzmann, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult life span; Affect; Aging; Emotion; Positivity effect

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DIFFERENCE; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANGER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955196713     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023424     Document Type: Article

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