Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with intact experience but abnormal expression of emotion. Because emotion regulation is important in determining levels of experienced and expressed emotion, individuals with AD and control participants were asked to watch film clips under conditions of spontaneous expression, suppression, or amplification of emotion. Both groups had difficulties with behavioral amplification that were related to performance on a measure of theory of mind. However, intentional use of suppression was intact even for those with AD, consistent with models of aging that regard some emotion control processes as being relatively more automatic in older adulthood.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 252-257 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Psychology and Aging |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2009 |
Keywords
- emotion experience
- emotion expression
- emotion regulation
- abnormal aging
- facial expression
- age
- dementia
- mind