Emotional Expressions of Old Faces Are Perceived as More Positive and Less Negative than Young Faces in Young Adults

Interpreting the emotions of others through their facial expressions can provide important social information, yet the way in which we judge an emotion is subject to psychosocial factors. We hypothesized that the age of a face would bias how the emotional expressions are judged, with older faces gen...

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Main Authors: Norah C Hass, Erik J Schneider, Seung-Lark eLim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01276/full