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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Emotion. 2009 Jun;9(3):329–339. doi: 10.1037/a0015179

Table 1.

Percent Correct Facial Expression Identification

Young Participants Older Participants

Mean SD Mean SD

Happy Faces
    Young Faces 98.0 4.61 96.9 6.65
    Older Faces 96.5 6.53 94.8 8.17
Angry Faces
    Young Faces 82.0 21.52 67.7 26.81
    Older Faces 71.9 18.24 62.5 21.81
Neutral Faces
    Young Faces 89.8 14.35 81.8 18.42
    Older Faces 77.3 20.19 72.4 25.53

Note. Young participants missed responding to 1.0 % of the trials and older participants missed responding to 2.9 % of the trials within the five seconds time interval.