Social contacts and loneliness affect the own age bias for emotional faces

Abstract Individuals are better at recognizing faces of their own age group (Own Age Bias) but it is unclear whether this bias occurs also for emotional faces and to what extent is affected by loneliness. Young individuals (N = 235) completed an age categorization task on faces of young and old indi...

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Main Authors: Adriana Patrizia Gonzalez Pizzio, Alla Yankouskaya, Guido Alessandri, Sancho Loreto, Anna Pecchinenda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20220-9