Friend or foe? Age moderates time-course specific responsiveness to trustworthiness cues

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-223

  Petrican, Raluca ^a   English, Tammy ^b   Gross, James J ^b   Grady, Cheryl ^a,c   Hai, Tasmia ^c   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Gaze following; Positivity effect; Trustworthiness; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRUST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874372551     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbs064     Document Type: Article

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