Publications by authors named "Christina Tornberg"
Individuals vary in emotion recognition ability (ERA), but the causes and correlates of this variability are not well understood. Previous studies have largely focused on unimodal facial or vocal expressions and a small number of emotion categories, which may not reflect how emotions are expressed in everyday interactions. We investigated individual differences in ERA using a brief test containing dynamic multimodal (facial and vocal) expressions of 5 positive and 7 negative emotions (the ERAM test).
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- * In two tasks, younger adults recognized emotions more accurately than older adults, particularly in auditory settings and for specific negative emotions.
- * The findings suggest that age impacts emotion recognition in both positive and negative emotions, indicating the age-related positivity effect may be less noticeable with dynamic stimuli and a diverse set of emotions.