Adult Age Differences in Using Information From the Eyes and Mouth to Make Decisions About Others' Emotions.

Objectives: Older adults are often less accurate than younger counterparts at identifying emotions such as anger, sadness, and fear from faces. They also look less at the eyes and more at the mouth during emotion perception. The current studies advance understanding of the nature of these age effects on emotional processing.

Quantitative Assessment of Secondary Healthcare Utilisation by Patients With Functional Abdominal Pain.

There is increasing awareness of the impact functional conditions have on the National Health Service (NHS). Less is known about the resources used to manage these conditions. This retrospective quantitative audit aims to determine the demographic and healthcare utilisation of functional abdominal pain patients presenting to the hospital.

Evaluation of Weigh Forward: A group intervention delivered by dietitians and psychologists within a National Health Service specialist weight management service.

There is limited evidence of the effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for severe obesity. Our aim was to evaluate a group intervention delivered by a National Health Service (NHS) specialist weight management service to contribute to the evidence base and inform the development of future services. Participants in this prospective cohort study were patients attending NHS Grampian Specialist Weight Management Services.

Gaze detection and gaze cuing in Alzheimer's disease.

People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) show problems with social processing in tasks which require the understanding of others' mental states. However traditional social processing tasks are cognitively complex, which may influence the effects of AD. Less is known about how AD influences more basic aspects of social perception, such as the ability to decode eye gaze direction or follow the gaze of another.

Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Eye-Gaze Following: Evidence From Social and Nonsocial Stimuli.

Background: Eye-gaze following is a fundamental social skill, facilitating communication. The present series of studies explored adult age-related differences in this key social-cognitive ability.

Method: In Study 1 younger and older adult participants completed a cueing task in which eye-gaze cues were predictive or non-predictive of target location.

Exploring own-age biases in deception detection.

The present study explored own-age biases in deception detection, investigating whether individuals were more likely to trust those in their own-age group. Younger and older participants were asked to detect deceit from videos of younger and older speakers, rating their confidence in each decision. Older participants showed an own-age bias: they were more likely to think that deceptive speakers of their own age, relative to younger speakers, were telling the truth.

Adult aging, processing style, and the perception of biological motion.

Unlabelled: BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT: Social perception may be influenced by the extent to which individuals focus on global, rather than local, detail-based, processing of information about others. Here the authors investigated whether global processing biases relate to successful detection of actions and emotions from point-light biological motion (BM) stimuli. Also explored is whether age differences in BM perception and global-local processing biases are related.

Lifespan aging and belief reasoning: Influences of executive function and social cue decoding.

Older adults often perform poorly on Theory of Mind (ToM) tests that require understanding of others' beliefs and intentions. The course and specificity of age changes in belief reasoning across the adult lifespan is unclear, as is the cause of the age effects. Cognitive and neuropsychological models predict that two types of processing might influence age differences in belief reasoning: executive functioning and social cue detection.