Emotional Coherence Across the Life Span: Age Differences in Behavior-Physiology Coherence during Sadness Responding

The present laboratory-based study (N = 89) with younger and older adults finds shows that emotional coherence for sadness (i.e., indexed by cross-correlations between objectively coded facial expressions and heart rate in response to a sad film) is positively related to older age.is positively associated with age.