2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Multifaceted studies of the positivity effect in older adults' affective processing
| Project/Area Number |
21830048
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Atsunobu Nagoya University, 環境学研究科, 講師 (80547498)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 感情 / エイジング / 顔 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project contributed to the development of experimental paradigms for measuring multiple aspects of the positivity effect in older adults' affective processing. Three studies were mainly performed. The first study examined whether and how age-related differences in facial affect recognition were accounted for by cognitive aging. The results showed that age-related declines in identifying happiness, surprise, fear, and sadness were fully mediated by cognitive aging, while the decline in anger was not. This implies that anger recognition can be used as a good index for the positivity effect. In the second and third studies, novel decision making tasks, which simulate real-life social exchange situations, were developed. These tasks demonstrated young adults' high sensitivity to "trustworthy-looking exploiters," suggesting their applicability for the measurement of older adults' vulnerability to fraud. Taken together, it could be concluded that this start-up project has succeeded in establishing the bases for further investigation into the effects of aging on affective processing.
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[Presentation] Aging Society and Psychology.2010
Author(s)
鈴木敦命
Organizer
1st Japan-Germany International Workshop on Aging Society
Place of Presentation
(Co-hosted by the University of Tokyo, German Academy of Science and Technology )Kyoto, Japan.
Year and Date
20101000
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