Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces
Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-9280.01455
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Carstensen, LL
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作者：
Mather, M;Carstensen, LL
我们考察了人们对悲伤、愤怒和快乐表情的注意力和记忆力的年龄差异。参与者看到了一对脸，一张情绪激动的脸，一张中立的脸，然后在其中一张脸的位置出现了一个圆点探测器。在两个实验中，老年人对这个点的反应，如果它与中性脸放在同一面，比它与负片脸放在同一面时反应更快。年轻人没有表现出这种注意力偏向。年龄和价态对面孔记忆的交互作用也被发现，老年人对正面面孔的记忆比负面面孔记忆更好。这些发现表明，在他们最初的注意力中，老年人会避免负面信息。这种注意力偏向与老年人总体上更好的情绪健康和他们对负面信息的记忆不如正面信息的倾向是一致的。
We examined age differences in attention to and memory for faces expressing sadness, anger and happiness. Participants saw a pair of faces, one emotional and one neutral, and then a dot probe that appeared in the location of one of the faces. In two experiments, older adults responded faster to the dot if it was presented on the same side as a neutral face than if it was presented on the same side as a negative face. Younger adults did not exhibit this attentional bias. Interactions of age and valence were also found for memory for the faces, with older adults remembering positive better than negative faces. These findings reveal that in their initial attention, older adults avoid negative information. This attentional bias is consistent with older adults' generally better emotional well-being and their tendency to remember negative less well than positive information.