Effects of aging on emotion recognition from dynamic multimodal expressions and vocalizations

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作者
Cortes, Diana S. [1 ]
Tornberg, Christina [1 ]
Baenziger, Tanja [2 ]
Elfenbein, Hillary Anger [3 ]
Fischer, Haken [1 ]
Laukka, Petri [1 ]
机构
[1] Stockholm Univ, Dept Psychol, Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Mid Sweden Univ, Dept Psychol, Ostersund, Sweden
[3] Washington Univ, Olin Business Sch, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
基金
瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES; OLDER-ADULTS; PERFORMANCE; PREFERENCES; PERCEPTION; PATTERNS; STIMULI; YOUNGER; TIME;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-021-82135-1
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Age-related differences in emotion recognition have predominantly been investigated using static pictures of facial expressions, and positive emotions beyond happiness have rarely been included. The current study instead used dynamic facial and vocal stimuli, and included a wider than usual range of positive emotions. In Task 1, younger and older adults were tested for their abilities to recognize 12 emotions from brief video recordings presented in visual, auditory, and multimodal blocks. Task 2 assessed recognition of 18 emotions conveyed by non-linguistic vocalizations (e.g., laughter, sobs, and sighs). Results from both tasks showed that younger adults had significantly higher overall recognition rates than older adults. In Task 1, significant group differences (younger>older) were only observed for the auditory block (across all emotions), and for expressions of anger, irritation, and relief (across all presentation blocks). In Task 2, significant group differences were observed for 6 out of 9 positive, and 8 out of 9 negative emotions. Overall, results indicate that recognition of both positive and negative emotions show age-related differences. This suggests that the age-related positivity effect in emotion recognition may become less evident when dynamic emotional stimuli are used and happiness is not the only positive emotion under study.
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