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This study shows that older adults react with greater sadness than young adults to loss-related film content, whereas another emotion, anxiety, showed no such effect. Furthermore, older adults' interest in the films was more stable than young adults’.
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Our findings indicates that different emotions might be affected by age in different ways, and one possible reason may relate to age-differential ways of information processing.
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This page is a summary of: Age differences in sadness reactivity and variability., Psychology and Aging, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000666.
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