title: Beyond "happy, angry, or sad?": age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception.
abstract: Young, middle-aged, and older raters (N=154) evaluated 1,026 prototypical facial poses of neutrality, happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness stemming from 171 young, middle-aged, and older posers. The majority of poses were rated as multi-faceted, that is, to comprise several expressions of varying intensities. Consistent with the notion of age-related increases in negativity-avoidance/positivity effects, crossed-random effects analyses showed an age-related decrease in the attributions of negative, but not positive and neutral, target expressions (that the poser intended to show), and an age-related increase in the attributions of positive and neutral, but not negative, non-target expressions (that the posers did not intend to show). Expressions were more difficult to read the older the posers, particularly for male posers. These age-of-poser effects were independent of the valence of the expression, but partly differed across age groups of raters. The study supports the idea of multi-dimensionality and age-dependency of emotion perception.
authors: Max Planck Research Group Affect Across the Lifespan, Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. riediger@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
authors: Michaela
authors: M
authors: Riediger
authors: Manuel C
authors: MC
authors: Voelkle
authors: Natalie C
authors: NC
authors: Ebner
authors: Ulman
authors: U
authors: Lindenberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012727:Sex Characteristics