Nicol Jeffrey R, Tanner Jessica, Clarke Kelly
a Department of Psychology , Nipissing University , North Bay , Ontario , Canada.
Exp Aging Res. 2013;39(5):565-78. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2013.839307.
BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: Arousal and negative affect modulate the effect of emotion on the subjective experience of the passage of time. Given that older adults are less aroused by negative emotional stimuli, and report lower levels of negative affect, compared with younger adults, the present study examined whether the effect of emotion on time perception differed in older and younger adults.
Participants performed a temporal bisection task for emotional (i.e., angry, sad, happy) and neutral facial expressions presented at varying temporal intervals.
Older adults perceived the duration of both positive and threatening events longer than neutral events, whereas younger adults only perceived threatening events longer than neutral events.
The results, which are partially consistent with the positivity effect of aging postulated by the socioemotional selectivity theory, are the first to show how the effect of emotion on perceived duration affects older adults, and support previous research indicating that only threatening events prolong perceived duration in younger adults.
背景/研究背景：唤醒和消极情绪会调节情绪对时间流逝主观体验的影响。鉴于与年轻人相比，老年人对负面情绪刺激的唤醒程度较低，且报告的消极情绪水平也较低，本研究考察了情绪对时间感知的影响在老年人和年轻人中是否存在差异。
参与者对以不同时间间隔呈现的情绪性（即愤怒、悲伤、快乐）和中性面部表情执行时间二等分任务。
老年人认为积极和威胁性事件的持续时间比中性事件更长，而年轻人只认为威胁性事件比中性事件持续时间更长。
这些结果部分与社会情感选择性理论假设的衰老积极效应一致，首次表明情绪对感知持续时间的影响如何影响老年人，并支持先前的研究，即只有威胁性事件会延长年轻人的感知持续时间。
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