Choking under pressure: Does it get easier with age? How loneliness affects social monitoring across the life span.

ABSTRACT: Previous experimental work showed that young adults reporting loneliness performed less well on emotion recognition tasks (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy [DANVA-2]) if they were framed as indicators of social aptitude, but not when the same tasks were framed as indexing academic aptitude. Such findings suggested that undergraduates reporting loneliness possessed the social monitoring skills necessary to read the emotions underlying others' facial expressions, but that they choked under social pressure. It has also been found that undergraduates reporting loneliness have better recall for both positive and negative social information than their non-lonely counterparts. Whether those effects are evident across different age groups has not been examined. Using data from the British

SUBMITTER: Pearce E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8727830 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature