Through a glass darkly: facial wrinkles affect our processing of emotion in the elderly
Through a glass darkly: facial wrinkles affect our processing of emotion in the elderly
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01476
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Hess, Ursula
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作者：
Freudenberg, Maxi;Adams, Reginald B., Jr.;Hess, Ursula
对情感表达的正确解读对社会生活至关重要。然而，相对于年轻面孔，老年人的情绪识别得不太好。其中一个原因可能是由于形态学变化，如皱纹和褶皱，使老年人面部的情感表现模糊，从而降低了面部信号的清晰度。通过三个实验，本研究探讨了情绪的错误归因到老年人的面孔损害情绪歧视。在一个初步的任务，中性的表情被认为是更富有表现力的老比年轻的面孔，由人类评分员（实验1A）和自动系统的情绪识别（实验1B）。因此，在视觉搜索任务（实验2）中，任务难度较高的老面孔相对于年轻的面孔。具体来说，参与者发现老面孔表达负面情绪的准确性和速度比年轻面孔的同龄人的中性面孔。因此，我们认为，年龄相关的面部特征的变化是最合理的解释之间的差异，情绪感知的年轻和老年人的面孔。这些研究结果与老年人的社会交流有关，特别是当多个老年人在场时。
The correct interpretation of emotional expressions is crucial for social life. However, emotions in old relative to young faces are recognized less well. One reason for this may be decreased signal clarity of older faces due to morphological changes, such as wrinkles and folds, obscuring facial displays of emotions. Across three experiments, the present research investigates how misattributions of emotions to elderly faces impair emotion discrimination. In a preliminary task, neutral expressions were perceived as more expressive in old than in young faces by human raters (Experiment 1A) and an automatic system for emotion recognition (Experiment 1B). Consequently, task difficulty was higher for old faces relative to young faces in a visual search task (Experiment 2). Specifically, participants detected old faces expressing negative emotions less accurately and slower among neutral faces of their peers than young faces among neutral faces of their peers. Thus, we argue that age-related changes in facial features are the most plausible explanation for the differences in emotion perception between young and old faces. These findings are of relevance for the social interchange with the elderly, especially when multiple older individuals are present.