Feeling sad makes us feel older: Effects of a sad-mood induction on subjective age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 412-418

  Dutt, Anne J ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mood induction; Negative affectivity; Sad mood states; Subjective age

Indexed keywords

AGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; MUSIC; PSYCINFO; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC;

EID: 85021706832     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000179     Document Type: Article

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