Applying ecologically valid approaches to social cognitive ageing

社会功能是幸福的重要预测指标，尤其是在老年人中。该项目旨在调查社会认知能力的重要性，这为有效的社会功能奠定了基础，如何受到正常成人老龄化的影响。这个项目将首次使用尖端的实验技术来调查衰老是如何改变我们在实验室内外的实时社会互动中视觉关注和理解他人情感信息的能力的。预期的结果包括老年人如何进行社会互动的新知识，有可能为改善澳大利亚老年人的社会福利奠定基础。

Social functioning is a critical predictor of wellbeing, particularly in older age. This project aims to investigate how important social cognitive capacities, that lay the foundation for effective social functioning, are impacted by normal adult ageing. This project will use cutting edge experimental techniques to investigate, for the first time, how ageing alters our capacity to visually attend and understand emotional information in others during real time social interactions, both in and out of the laboratory. Expected outcomes include new knowledge of how older adults navigate social interactions, with potential to lay a foundation for improving social wellbeing in older Australians.