Age differences in managing response to sadness elicitors using attentional deployment, positive reappraisal and suppression

The current study investigated age differences in the use of attentional deployment, positive reappraisal and suppression while regulating responses to sadness-eliciting content. We also tested to what extent these emotion regulation strategies were useful for each age group in managing response to age-relevant sad information. Forty-two young participants (M(age) = 18.5, SE = .15) and 48 older participants (M(age) = 71.42, SE = 1.15) watched...