The perception and expression of lexical emotion across the lifespan.
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Title
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The perception and expression of lexical emotion across the lifespan.
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Identifier
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AAI9530877
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identifier
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9530877
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Creator
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Grunwald, Ilana Shlomit.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Joan C. Borod
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Experimental | Biology, Neuroscience | Gerontology | Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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Changes in the perception and expression of lexical/verbal emotion with age were examined in normal, healthy adults. 28 young (20-39 years), 28 middle-aged (40-59) and 28 older (60-85) adults participated. Subjects were equally divided in terms of gender. Both emotional and nonemotional lexical control tasks were studied. For emotional tasks stimuli consisted of both positively and negatively valenced items. Subjects were required to rate single words, three-word clusters, and sentences in terms of category membership and perception of emotional intensity. Subjects also had to discriminate word pairs belonging to the same or to different categories. The expression task required the subjects to generate words to emotional or to abstract nonemotional categories.;There were virtually no significant differences among the three age groups on the tasks examined. Older adults tended to perceive the nonemotional stimuli as being more emotionally intense than did younger and middle-aged adults. There was some support for previous research findings suggesting that women are better decoders of emotional stimuli than are men. Finally, it was found that negative emotional stimuli were more easily categorized and were also perceived as being more emotionally intense than were positive emotional stimuli.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
