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 signi cant 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 in uence 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 bene t from this over-view and theoretical framework.
As we age, our faces and bodies change, but we know little about how these physiological changes can affect how people perceive and interpret the emotions of older adults. This book reviews how the elderly communicate emotions in interactions with friends and family, in the workplace, and in healthcare settings.
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A multidisciplinary examination of how the aging face and body affect emotion communication, crucial for all life domains.
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.
Ursula Hess is Professor of Psychology at Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Germany and President of the International Society for Research on Emotion. Her research focuses on emotion communication, particularly nonverbal synchronization (mimicry) and the role of emotion expressions on impression formation. She has more than 200 scholarly publications, including ve books. Reginald B. Adams, Jr. is Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, USA and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. His research focuses on how social visual cues perceptually combine to form the unied representations that guide our impressions of and responses to others. He has more than 100 scholarly publications, including two books. Robert E. Kleck is Emeritus Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. His research has focused on the social psychological implications of physical appearance, particularly those that are stigmatizing, and more recently the interaction of facial appearance and facial expression in determining both emotional attribution and person perception outcomes.
