Ted Ruffman

Dr, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

Publications
  • Mini Review   
    What Causes Age-Related Emotion Recognition Decline?
    Author(s): Ted Ruffman*

    Older adults ≥( 60 years) are worse than young adult<s 3( 0 years) recognizing facial, bodily, auditory and musi cal emotion expressions. I ask what causes these difficulties and run through five theories: (1) a positivity bias, (2) general cognitive decline, (3) a failure to look at the eyes, (4) stimuli with low ecological validity, and (5) brain change. I argue that brain change is the most likely cause, although currently there have still been only a few studies to examine this idea, and further, it is not clear what pattern of brain activation might be examined to differentiate young and older adults. .. View more»

    DOI: 10.35248/2329-8847.20.S3.004

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