School of Psychology, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, AB24 2UB, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Psychol Aging. 2010 Mar;25(1):246-50. doi: 10.1037/a0018248.
The present study investigated age-related changes in the ability to discriminate between distinctions in the emotion underlying enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles, both when making explicit decisions about feelings of happiness and when making social judgments of approachability. No age differences were found in the ability to discriminate between these two types of smile. However, older adults demonstrated a greater bias toward reporting that any smiling individual was feeling happy. Older adults were also more likely to choose to approach an individual who was displaying a nonenjoyment smile. Implications of these findings for older adults' interpersonal functioning are discussed.
本研究调查了年龄相关的变化，即在明确做出关于幸福感的决定和做出可接近性的社会判断时，区分愉悦和非愉悦微笑背后的情绪差异的能力。在区分这两种微笑类型的能力方面，没有发现年龄差异。然而，老年人表现出更大的偏差，即报告任何微笑的人都感到快乐。老年人也更有可能选择接近表现出非愉悦微笑的人。讨论了这些发现对老年人人际交往功能的影响。
