Age Differences in the Complexity of Emotion Perception

Kim, Seungyoun; Geren, Jennifer L.; Knight, Bob G.

doi:10.1080/0361073x.2015.1085727

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“…The current findings on cross-sectional differentiation of responses to transgressions with age resemble some findings with respect to age differences in mixed emotional experiences (see Charles et al, 2017 for a review). Some studies observed an increase in the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions with age (Carstensen et al, 2000;Kim et al, 2015;Löckenhoff et al, 2008), whereas other studies found age effects in the co-occurrence of negative emotions. For instance, a laboratory study has shown that older adults reported greater emotional heterogeneity when watching film clips showing scenes of injustice, whereas younger adults were more likely to report a single primary negative emotion (Charles, 2005).…”

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Responses to interpersonal transgressions from early adulthood to old age.

Allemand¹,

Olaru²

2021

Psychology and Aging

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In this study, we addressed age differences in how people respond to interpersonal transgressions. Specifically, we examined whether the tendencies to respond with revenge, avoidance, and benevolence differ as a function of age in a cross-sectional study with a large sample (N = 1,413; age range: 19-83 years). We used local structural equation modeling (LSEM) to examine nonlinear mean level, structural, and variance-related differences in responses to transgressions across continuous age. We found a small increase in average benevolence and a small decrease in revenge mean levels during early adulthood.In contrast to research on avoidance related to interpersonal stressors, the current results suggest the opposite age pattern with a moderate decrease in avoidance with increasing age. Additionally, the strength of the negative correlation between benevolence and the two other response options decreased with age. This pattern indicates that younger adults generally either respond with a negative or positive reaction, whereas responses were more differentiated in old age. The current findings demonstrate the importance of addressing age differences in responses to interpersonal transgressors from multiple perspectives.

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Responses to interpersonal transgressions from early adulthood to old age.

Allemand¹,

Olaru²

2021

Psychology and Aging

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“…Older adults may inaccurately recognize emotional expressions, in part, because they perceive a greater diversity of emotions than younger adults [45, 46]. This diversity is not well represented by traditional laboratory tasks that include expressions depicting a single target emotion.…”

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Aging and emotions: experience, regulation, and perception

Isaacowitz

Livingstone

Castro

2017

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Whereas some theories suggest that emotion-related processes become more positive with age, recent empirical findings on affective experience, emotion regulation, and emotion perception depict a more nuanced picture. Though there is some evidence for positive age trajectories in affective experience, results are mixed for emotion regulation and largely negative for emotion perception. Thus, current findings suggest that the effects of age on emotion vary across different affective domains; age patterns are also influenced by different moderators, including contextual factors and individual differences.

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“…For example, in one study where younger and older adults viewed faces and interpreted the emotions the faces conveyed, older adults used a greater number of emotional descriptors, demonstrating appraisals of greater emotional complexity than younger adults [7]. Similarly, a momentary-sampling study, which included adults ranging from 18 to 94 years, found that older age was related to greater co-occurrence of both positive and negative affect [8].…”

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Mixed emotions across adulthood: when, where, and why?

Charles

Piazza

Urban

2017

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Psychologists often interpret mixed emotional experiences, defined as experiencing more than one emotion over a given period of time, as indicative of greater emotional complexity and more adaptive functioning. In the present paper, we briefly review studies that have examined these experiences across adulthood. We describe how mixed emotions have been defined in the lifespan literature, and how the various studies examining age differences in this phenomenon have yielded discrepant results. We then discuss future research directions that could clarify the nature of mixed emotions and their utility in adulthood, including the assessment of situational context, understanding when mixed emotions are adaptive in daily life, and determining how cognitive functioning is involved in these experiences.

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Age Differences in the Complexity of Emotion Perception

Abstract: These findings demonstrate that older adults showed increased elaboration of emotion, particularly when emotion cues were subtle and provide support for greater emotion differentiation in older adulthood.

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Responses to interpersonal transgressions from early adulthood to old age.

Responses to interpersonal transgressions from early adulthood to old age.

Aging and emotions: experience, regulation, and perception

Mixed emotions across adulthood: when, where, and why?

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