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Demonstrates shifts in emotion recognition accuracy in older adults, suggesting implications for social interactions.
The ability to recognize emotions from facial expressions is fundamental to social functioning, allowing humans to detect threats, infer intentions, and navigate complex social interactions. Yet this ability changes with aging: older adults show reduced accuracy for negative emotions such as fear
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