Ways of Expressing Emotions on Different Age Groups: On Children, Teenagers and Adults
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Emotion plays vital role in everyday personal interactions. Expression of feelings diverse according to people’s ages. This article includes the ways of displaying feelings in different age groups through various ways. This is a new research basing on the theory and practice of sociocognitive approaches suggest that the capacity to comprehend feelings should be very much kept up with in adult maturing. However, neuropsychological factors indicate possible weaknesses in handling feelings in older adults. In the current study, we will analyze how children, young adults (aged 20–40 years) and 30 older adults (aged 60–80 years) were tested on a range of emotional ability measures. There were no age effects on the ability to decode emotions from verbal material. Older people were less able to identify facial expressions of anger and sadness, and showed poorer ability to identify theory of mind from pictures of eyes. The results indicate specific age-related deficits in identifying some aspects of emotion from faces, but no age effects on the understanding of emotions in verbal descriptions.
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communication, emotion, oral speech, cross-disciplinary, clinical interaction