Visual attention and emotional reactions to negative stimuli: The role of age and cognitive reappraisal.
Prominent life span theories of emotion propose that older adults attend less to negative emotional information and report less negative emotional reactions to the same information than younger adults do. Although parallel age differences in affective information processing and age differences in em...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Aging Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 543 - 557 |
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American Psychological Association
Sep2017
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