Caring more and knowing more reduces age-related differences in emotion perception.

Caring more and knowing more reduces age-related differences in emotion perception.

Traditional emotion perception tasks show that older adults are less accurate than are young adults at recognizing facial expressions of emotion. Recently, we proposed that socioemotional factors might explain why older adults seem impaired in lab tasks but less so in everyday life (Isaacowitz & Stanley, 2011). Thus, in the present research we empirically tested whether socioemotional factors s...

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series of forums honoring the memory of Harold Richman, who, with his friend and colleague Tom Joe, founded the Center for the Study of Social Policy in 1979 and chaired its board from 2000 until his death in 2009. Harold contributed much to the field of children's and family services. His distinguished career reflected his belief that actions to improve children's and families' lives require a...

Gender-related differences in the production and perception of emotion

This article discusses a study into gender-related differences in the experience, display and perception of positive and negative emotions. The problem is addressed by a combination of a production and a perception experiment. The production study makes use of a mood induction procedure which aims to elicit positive and negative emotions in subjects by letting them view different kinds of movie...

Are COVID-19 Protective Behaviours and Risk Perception More Common in Diabetic Women than Non-Diabetics?

Objective: Diabetic patients are more likely to be infected and are at the higher risk of morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to compare the preventive behaviours and perceived risk of COVID-19 in women with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Materials and Methods: The analytical cross-sectional study was conducted from June to July 2020 on 151 par...