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

ABSTRACT:

This article addresses four interrelated research questions

(1) Does experienced mood affect emotion perception in faces and is this perception mood-congruent or mood-incongruent?(2) Are there age-group differences in the interplay between experienced mood and emotion perception? (3) Does emotion perception in faces change as a function of the temporal sequence of study sessions and stimuli presentation, and (4) does emotion perception in faces serve a mood-regulatory function? One hundred fifty-four adults of three different age groups (younger: 20-31 years; middle-aged: 44-55 years; older adults: 70-81 years) were asked to provide multidimensional emotion ratings of a total of 1026 face pictures of younger, middle-aged, and older men and women, each displaying six different proto

SUBMITTER: Voelkle MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4071858 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature