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Aging and attention: Meaningfulness may be more important than valence
- Source :
- Psychology and Aging. 34:85-90
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2019.
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Abstract
- Studies on socioemotional selectivity theory have found that compared with younger adults, older adults are more likely to (a) prefer to interact with emotionally close social partners and (b) show preferential cognitive processing of positive relative to negative stimuli. To integrate these 2 lines of findings, this study examined attention toward emotional (positive and negative) facial expressions of experimentally manipulated emotionally close versus nonclose targets among younger and older adults. Compared with younger adults, older adults gazed more at facial expressions of emotionally close than nonclose targets, regardless of valence. This age difference occurred to a greater extent among those who endorsed eudaimonic goals more. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
- Subjects :
- Male
Aging
Social Psychology
Emotions
PsycINFO
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Young Adult
Mental Processes
Humans
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Valence (psychology)
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Facial expression
Age differences
Socioemotional selectivity theory
05 social sciences
Cognition
Affective valence
Facial Expression
Sexual Partners
Younger adults
Female
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Psychology
Photic Stimulation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391498 and 08827974
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology and Aging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b0266a7f5aebb00115f24b847120d31e