Table 2. Age effects for recognition of different emotions.

	M	K	N	I2
Anger	−0.61***	21	1,785	.76***
Sadness	−0.43***	18	1,661	.64***
Fear	−0.62***	18	1,606	.53**
Disgust	−0.04	16	1,480	.88***
Surprise	−0.45***	9	621	.90***
Happiness	−0.19*	22	1832	.70***
Overall	−1.80***	24	1978	.98***

Notes.

M, mean effect size; K, number of independent studies contributing towards each respective mean effect size. A negative effect size denotes that older adults are worse than younger adults; a positive effect size indicates the reverse. N, number of participants. I² quantifies within-group heterogeneity.

Significances are marked by ^∗p < .05, ^∗∗p < .01, and ^∗∗∗p < .001.