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Without words for emotions: Is the emotional processing deficit in alexithymia caused by dissociation or suppression?

Creator:

Sinnott, Christian B. and Lien, Mei-Ching

Abstract:

Alexithymia is a trait where individuals have difficulty identifying feeling and finding a word to express emotion. Some studies have suggested that this deficit is due to dissociation (repression), or an inability to perceive emotions, whereas others argued that the deficit is due to suppression of emotional information after it...

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Poster
Age- related memory change for emotional faces: are older adults more prone to forget angry faces?

Creator:

Hwee, Jennifer, Burros, Alison, MacKay, Kallie, and Lien, Mei-Ching

Abstract:

Previous studies have suggested that negatively valenced faces (e.g., angry faces) automatically capture attention away from faces with other emotional valences (e.g., happy faces and neutral faces). The present study evaluated two experiments with age-related differences: the first assessed recognition memory for pictures of faces and how it is modulated...

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Poster