Abstract
Emotional information conveyed through facial expressions captures people's attention. While negative emotions closely related to general human survival tend to attract attention, as aging progresses, people tend to shift their attention more quickly to positive emotions than negative ones. This study utilized the dot-probe task to examine whether positive emotion bias varies with age among adults aged 20 to 69. Additionally, this study aimed to investigate whether the own-age effect occurs using photos of two age groups (i.e., a young actor and an elderly actor). The results of the study showed that participants of all age groups tended to focus more on positive emotions. The results also showed the own-age effect such that 30’s age group payed more attention to positive and negative facial expressions of the young actors. These results suggest that positive emotions are recognized as important social information for all age groups, and attention bias differs according to the nature of the stimuli.
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