Adult age differences in using information from the eyes and mouth to make decisions about others' emotions.
Gillian SlessorPauline InschIsla DonaldsonVestina SciaponaiteMalgorzata AdamowiczLouise H PhillipsPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2022)
These studies indicate that older people are more able than young to interpret emotional information from the mouth, they are more biased to use information from the mouth, and suffer more difficulty in emotion perception when the mouth is covered with a facemask. This has implications for social communication in different age groups.