title: Emotion experience, expression, and regulation in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with intact experience but abnormal expression of emotion. Because emotion regulation is important in determining levels of experienced and expressed emotion, individuals with AD and control participants were asked to watch film clips under conditions of spontaneous expression, suppression, or amplification of emotion. Both groups had difficulties with behavioral amplification that were related to performance on a measure of theory of mind. However, intentional use of suppression was intact even for those with AD, consistent with models of aging that regard some emotion control processes as being relatively more automatic in older adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. julie.henry@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Julie D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: Peter G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Rendell
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scicluna
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Louise H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012919:Social Behavior