Mobile eye tracking reveals little evidence for age differences in attentional selection for mood regulation

Emotion

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 151-161

  Isaacowitz, Derek M ^a   Livingstone, Kimberly M ^a   Harris, Julia A ^a,b   Marcotte, Stacy L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attentional deployment; Emotion regulation; Mobile eye tracking; Situation selection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; MOOD; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PURSUIT, SMOOTH;

EID: 84926421117     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000037     Document Type: Article

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