Age differences in managing response to sadness elicitors using attentional deployment, positive reappraisal and suppression

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 678-697

  Lohani, Monika ^a   Isaacowitz, Derek M ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Emotion regulation; Psychophysiology; Sadness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL DEPLOYMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SADNESS; SELF REPORT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896542975     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.853648     Document Type: Article

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