Bringing an Ecological Perspective to the Study of Aging and Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions: Past, Current, and Future Methods
- 24 July 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Vol. 35 (4), 261-278
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-011-0113-6
Abstract
Older adults perform worse on traditional tests of emotion recognition accuracy than do young adults. In this paper, we review descriptive research to date on age differences in emotion recognition from facial expressions, as well as the primary theoretical frameworks that have been offered to explain these patterns. We propose that this is an area of inquiry that would benefit from an ecological approach in which contextual elements are more explicitly considered and reflected in experimental methods. Use of dynamic displays and examination of specific cues to accuracy, for example, may reveal more nuanced age-related patterns and may suggest heretofore unexplored underlying mechanisms.This publication has 94 references indexed in Scilit:
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