Let me guess how old you are: Effects of age, gender, and facial expression on perceptions of age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-277

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Emotion; Faces; Own age advantage bias; Own gender advantage bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; AGING; ANGER; ARTICLE; DISGUST; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONELINESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; AGE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACE; HUMAN RELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867067732     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025065     Document Type: Article

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