Motivation and social-cognitive abilities in older adults: Convergent evidence from self-report measures and cardiovascular reactivity.

Recently, some authors have suggested that age-related impairments in social-cognitive abilities-emotion recognition (ER) and theory of mind (ToM)-may be explained in terms of reduced motivation and effort mobilization in older adults. We examined performance on ER and ToM tasks, as well as correspo...

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Main Authors: Irene Ceccato, Serena Lecce, Elena Cavallini, Floris T van Vugt, Ted Ruffman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218785

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