Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in emotion representations and self-reports across adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Bodily sensations are closely linked to emotional experiences. However, most research assessing the body-emotion link focuses on young adult samples. Inspired by prior work showing age-related declines in autonomic reactivity and interoception, we present 2 studies investigating age-related differences in the extent to which adults (18-75 years) associate interoceptive or internal bodily sensations with emotions. Study 1 (N = 150) used a property association task to assess age effects on adults' tendencies to associate interoceptive sensations, relative to behaviors or situations, with negative emotion categories (e.g., anger, sadness). Study 2 (N = 200) used the Day Reconstruction experience sampling method to assess the effect of age on adults' tendencies to report interoce

SUBMITTER: MacCormack JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239717 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature