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Avoiding Threat in Late Adulthood: Testing Two Life Span Theories of Emotion.

The purpose of the present research was to explore the time course of age-related attentional biases and the role of emotion regulation as a potential mediator of older adults' performance in an emotion dot probe task. In two studies, younger and older adults (N = 80) completed a visual probe detect...

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Published in:Experimental Aging Research Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 449 - 473
Main Author: Orgeta, Vasiliki
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2011
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          Emotions
          Aging
          Anger Prevention and Control
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          United Kingdom
          Cognition
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          Male
          Female
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Aged
          Aged, 80 and Over
          Aptitude Tests
          Analysis of Variance
          T-Tests
          Regression
          Psychological Tests
          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Aged, 80 & over
          Male
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      ab: The purpose of the present research was to explore the time course of age-related attentional biases and the role of emotion regulation as a potential mediator of older adults' performance in an emotion dot probe task. In two studies, younger and older adults (N = 80) completed a visual probe detection task, which presented happy, angry, and sad facial expressions. Across both studies, age influenced attentional responses to angry faces. Results indicated a bias away from angry-related facial emotion information occurring relatively late in attention. Age effects were not attributable to decreasing information processing speed or visuoperceptual function. Current results demonstrated that an age-related attentional preference away from angry facial cues was mediated by efforts to suppress emotion. Findings are discussed in relation to current theories of sociocognitive aging.
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