The Influence of Oxytocin on Older Adults’ Emotion Processing

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The Influence of Oxytocin on Older Adults’ Emotion Processing

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Emotion processing involves attending to and recognising emotional stimuli, as well as experiencing a feeling of emotion and expressing an emotional reaction. Age-related differences in the processing of emotions are apparent when comparing older (over 60 years) and young (18-30 years) participants. Oxytocin has been shown to increase emotion recognition and some measures that are associated with emotional responses in young adults. The findings are not consistent though, and the effects of o...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2015

Creator

Campbell, Anna

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/5912

Related subjects

Oxytocin / Ageing / emotion / processing

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