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Age-related positivity enhancement is not universal: older Chinese look away from positive stimuli.
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Positivity effect not found in old Chinese adults
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Old adults looked away from both happy and sad (vs neutral) faces, but more at fear (vs neutral). Old adults did not show any attentional preferences for anger and young adults did not show any attention preferences for any emotional-neutral pairs.
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Compared fixation preferences for young and old Chinese adults that were asked to simply view an emotional (happy, sad, fearful, or angry) and neutral greyscale synthetic face pair. The faces were shown for either 1,4 or 8 seconds. Attentional preferences were measured in terms of a ratio of the fixation time of each emotional face relative to its neutral counterpart.
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Socioemotional selectivity theory postulates that with age, people are motivated to derive emotional meaning from life, leading them to pay more attention to positive relative to negative/neutral stimuli. The authors argue that cultures that differ in what they consider to be emotionally meaningful may show this preference to different extents. Using eye-tracking techniques, the authors compared visual attention toward emotional (happy, fearful, sad, and angry) and neutral facial expressions among 46 younger and 57 older Hong Kong Chinese. In contrast to prior Western findings, older but not younger Chinese looked away from happy facial expressions, suggesting that they do not show attentional preferences toward positive stimuli.
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