A note on age differences in mood-congruent vs. mood-incongruent emotion processing in faces

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossed random effects analysis; Emotion perception; Faces; Mood regulation; Mood (in)congruent information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904547501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00635     Document Type: Article

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