Kim Seungyoun, Geren Jennifer L, Knight Bob G
a UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles , California , USA.
b VA Long Beach Healthcare System , Long Beach , California , USA.
Exp Aging Res. 2015;41(5):556-71. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2015.1085727.
BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: The current study examined age differences in the number of emotion components used in the judgment of emotion from facial expressions.
Fifty-eight younger and 58 older adults were compared on the complexity of perception of emotion from standardized facial expressions that were either clear or ambiguous exemplars of emotion.
Using an intra-individual factor analytic approach, results showed that older adults used more emotion components in perceiving emotion in faces than younger adults. Both age groups reported greater emotional complexity for the clear and prototypical emotional stimuli. Age differences in emotional complexity were more pronounced for the ambiguous expressions compared with the clear expressions.
These findings demonstrate that older adults showed increased elaboration of emotion, particularly when emotion cues were subtle and provide support for greater emotion differentiation in older adulthood.
背景/研究背景：本研究考察了在根据面部表情判断情绪时所使用的情绪成分数量的年龄差异。
比较了58名年轻人和58名老年人对标准化面部表情的情绪感知复杂性，这些表情是情绪的清晰或模糊示例。
采用个体内因素分析方法，结果表明，老年人在感知面部情绪时比年轻人使用更多的情绪成分。两个年龄组都报告说，清晰和典型的情绪刺激具有更高的情绪复杂性。与清晰表情相比，模糊表情的情绪复杂性年龄差异更为明显。
这些发现表明，老年人表现出更高的情绪精细化，特别是当情绪线索很微妙时，这为成年后期更大的情绪分化提供了支持。
