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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Adult Age Differences in Emotional Response to Framed Health Information in Narrative Reading Comprehension

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Developmental

  • Xiaomei Liu
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Joseph Mikels
    DePaul University
  • Elizabeth Stine-Morrow
    University of Illinois

Abstract

We investigated age differences in emotional response to framed health messages in a narrative consistency paradigm. Results indicated that both young and older readers spontaneously activate emotion when reading framed messages, but that older adults have more difficulty processing health messages when the situation evokes a negative emotional tone.

Emotion