Does the positivity effect apply to emotion recognition? Examining emotion recognition across adulthood

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Michelle Eskritt, Chaya Seale, Marie-Eve Brownell
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Abstract

Research indicates older adults can experience a decline in the ability to identify negative facial emotional expressions while having less difficulty with positive emotions, a finding termed the ‘positivity effect’. We investigated whether the positivity effect is related to the traditional method for studying emotion recognition and the finding that older adults have less negative affect in general. Participants, ranging in age from 19 to 80 years old, viewed videos and pictures of emotional expressions balanced in valence, arousal, and complexity. Though older adults rated the positive stimuli as more positive and intense than younger adults, we did not find a decline in emotion identification accuracy with age. Mood was, for the most part, unrelated to emotion recognition. The findings highlight the need for a more nuanced approach to understanding emotion recognition.
积极效应是否适用于情绪识别?研究成年后的情绪识别
研究表明,老年人识别负面面部表情的能力会下降,而识别积极情绪的能力则会下降,这一发现被称为“积极效应”。我们调查了积极效应是否与传统的情绪识别研究方法和老年人总体上较少的消极影响有关。参与者年龄从19岁到80岁不等,他们观看了情绪表达的视频和图片,这些情感表达在效价、唤起和复杂性方面保持平衡。虽然老年人对积极刺激的评价比年轻人更积极、更强烈,但我们没有发现情绪识别的准确性随着年龄的增长而下降。情绪在很大程度上与情绪识别无关。研究结果强调,需要一种更细致入微的方法来理解情绪识别。
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Development contains the very best empirical and theoretical work on the development of perception, memory, language, concepts, thinking, problem solving, metacognition, and social cognition. Criteria for acceptance of articles will be: significance of the work to issues of current interest, substance of the argument, and clarity of expression. For purposes of publication in Cognitive Development, moral and social development will be considered part of cognitive development when they are related to the development of knowledge or thought processes.
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