Table 1. Characteristics of Older and Younger Adult Responders across Emotional Arousal Conditions.

Variable (M [SD] or %)	Older Adults			Younger Adults
	HAP (n=23)	HAN (n=22)	LA (n=26)	HAP (n=24)	HAN (n=20)	LA (n=24)
Age	74.09 (5.94)	72.59 (4.58)	74.54 (5.17)	34.42 (3.18)	34.15 (3.12)	34.83 (3.49)
Gender (% female)	60.9%	63.6%	61.5%	70.8%	45.0%	54.2%
Ethnicity (% non-Hispanic)*	95.7%	95.5%	88.5%	75.0%	90.0%	95.8%
Race†
White	78.3%	90.9%	84.6%	41.7%	50.0%	50.0%
African-American	13.0%	4.5%	3.8%	8.3%	25.0%	8.3%
Asian-American	0.0%	4.5%	3.8%	20.8%	10.0%	37.5%
Mixed Race/Other	8.6%	0.0%	7.7%	29.2%	15.0%	4.2%
Education Level	7.04 (2.69)	7.18 (3.08)	6.15 (2.20)	5.88 (1.45)	6.00 (2.27)	7.13 (1.92)
Digit Span	16.91 (5.62)	16.05 (2.92)	14.58 (2.93)	14.67 (3.74)	17.40 (4.42)	15.88 (3.53)
Digit Symbol	44.17 (12.98)	45.91 (7.96)	44.04 (8.60)	62.92 (14.84)	63.10 (12.96)	64.75 (9.56)
Shipley Vocabulary‡	35.04 (4.08)	35.68 (2.90)	35.28 (4.18)	30.58 (5.51)	31.75 (3.51)	32.17 (4.56)
DOSPERT Investment Subscale	2.58 (1.07)	2.76 (0.95)	2.90 (0.82)	2.47 (1.01)	2.83 (0.77)	3.16 (0.89)
RT
Target, Baseline Task (ms)	336.39 (65.03)	322.64 (52.63)	340.69 (81.58)	313.92 (94.36)	303.05 (79.88)	299.63 (55.93)
Target, MID Task (ms)	288.79 (50.87)	286.13 (81.60)	334.21 (89.03)	254.61 (36.11)	231.20 (32.73)	284.80 (51.87)
Advertisement Credibility (sec)	7.29 (2.41)	7.50 (2.36)	7.53 (1.82)	5.19 (1.71)	4.56 (1.27)	4.88 (1.12)
Purchase Intention (sec)	5.78 (2.16)	5.88 (1.50)	6.06 (1.42)	6.56 (2.23)	6.25 (2.06)	6.68 (1.76)

Note. HAP=High-arousal positive emotion condition; HAN=High-arousal negative emotion condition; LA=Low arousal condition; DOSPERT=Domain-Specific Risk Attitude Scale; RT=reaction time; ms=milliseconds; sec=seconds.

^*Ethnicity reported as “Hispanic,” “non-Hispanic,” or “Unknown.” Four participants reported ethnicity as “Unknown.”

^†Numbers do not always add up to 100% due to rounding.

^‡Data were missing for one participant.