Positive and Detached Reappraisal of Threatening Music in Younger and Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: Past empirical studies have suggested that older adults preferentially use gaze-based mood regulation to lessen their negative experiences while watching an emotional scene. This preference for a low cognitively demanding regulatory strategy leaves open the question of whether the effortful processing of a more cognitively demanding reappraisal task is really spared from the general age-related decline. Because it does not allow perceptual attention to be redirected away from the emotional source, music provides an ideal way to address this question. The goal of our study was to examine the affective, behavioral, physiological, and cognitive outcomes of positive and detached reappraisal in response to negative musical emotion in younger and older adults. Participants first simply listened

SUBMITTER: Vieillard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7330061 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature