Emotion Communication by the Aging Face and Body

A Multidisciplinary View
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-20966-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 339 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction

A multidisciplinary examination of how the aging face and body affect emotion communication, crucial for all life domains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Jr.

Kleck, Robert E.

Hess, Ursula

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Kleck, Robert E.
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.