Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body
Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body
Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Pennsylvania State University
Robert E. Kleck, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
As our society ages, questions concerning the relations between generations gain importance. The quality of human relations depends on the quality of emotion communication, which is a significant part of our daily interactions. Emotion expressions serve not only to communicate how the expresser feels, but also to communicate intentions (whether to approach or retreat) and personality traits (such as dominance, trustworthiness, or friendliness) that influence our decisions regarding whether and how to interact with a person. Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body delineates how aging affects emotion communication and person perception by bringing together research across multiple disciplines. Scholars and graduate students in the psychology of aging, affective science, and social gerontology will benefit from this over-view and theoretical framework.
- Combines literature on the aging face and body from wide-ranging disciplines
- Points out gaps in research and highlights the need for future work in these domains
- Offers an overarching theoretical framework for the study of the aging face and body
Product details
November 2023Adobe eBook Reader
9781009209649
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Preface – Communicating emotion with an aging face and body: critical issues and theoretical considerations
- Part I. Basic Processes:
- 1. Emotion communication and person perception
- 2. How social, emotional, and motivational forces affect facial appearance over time
- 3. Aging bodies, brains, and emotions: the physiological hypothesis of emotional aging
- Part II. Aging and Aging Stereotypes:
- 4. Facial Aging and its influence on facial stereotypes and trait judgments
- 5. The intersection of race, gender/sex, and age in emotion perception from faces and bodies
- 6. Perceived age, stereotyping, and emotion in intergenerational communication
- Part III. Impact of Aging Cues on First Impressions and Emotion Communication:
- 7. Youth and beauty: age-based trait impressions from faces
- 8. Conscious and unconscious emotion communication in intergenerational interaction
- Part IV. The Effects of Facial Movement Impairment of Emotion Communication:
- 9. Emotional anatomy: facial expressions and botulinum toxin
- 10: The expression and perception of social and emotional cues in older adults with Parkinson's disease
- Part V. Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Effects of Aging on Emotion Communication:
- 11: Computer vision for the study of older (and younger) adult faces: Approaches, Advances, and Applications
- 12: Using data-driven methods to advance knowledge of social face perception
- Conclusion: the aging body – a proposal for future research.
