Beaudreau Sherry A, MacKay Anna, Storandt Martha
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Psychology Service/MIRECC, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
Exp Aging Res. 2009 Apr-Jun;35(2):235-49. doi: 10.1080/03610730902720513.
Thirty younger (mean age = 21 years) and 30 older (mean age = 73 years) adults were compared to determine if they had similar affective experiences to eight emotion films previously validated with young adults (Gross & Levenson, 1995). Participants rated their emotions, and heart rate was collected during two films of each emotion: amusement, anger, sadness, and fear. Older and younger adults were generally similar in their physiological and subjective responses to films, but with a few exceptions. Older adults reported more intense anger in response to one film and more intense nontarget negative emotions for both anger films compared with young adults. Some older adults also reported a negative response compared with young adults to one of the films designed to elicit amusement. Thus it is inappropriate to assume that emotional stimuli produce the same response across the adult life span.
研究比较了30名年轻人（平均年龄 = 21岁）和30名年长者（平均年龄 = 73岁），以确定他们对八部先前已在年轻人中验证过的情感电影（格罗斯和莱文森，1995年）是否有相似的情感体验。参与者对自己的情绪进行评分，并在每种情绪的两部电影播放期间收集心率： amusement（娱乐）、愤怒、悲伤和恐惧。年长者和年轻人对电影的生理和主观反应总体上相似，但也有一些例外。与年轻人相比，年长者对其中一部电影表现出更强烈的愤怒，并且对两部愤怒电影都表现出更强烈的非目标负面情绪。与年轻人相比，一些年长者对其中一部旨在引发娱乐的电影也表现出负面反应。因此，假设情感刺激在整个成年期都会产生相同的反应是不合适的。
