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PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 542-549Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0016105
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Parkinson's disease; first impressions; social support; social strain; older adults
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Parkinson's disease (PD) involves facial masking, which may impair social interaction. Older adult observers who viewed segments of videotaped interviews of individuals with PD expressed less interest in relationships with women with higher masking and judged them as less supportive. Masking did not affect ratings of men in these domains, possibly because higher masking violates gender norms for expressivity in women but not in men. Observers formed less accurate ratings of the social supportiveness and social strain of women than men, and higher masking decreased accuracy for ratings of strain. Results suggest that some of the problems with social relationships in PD may be due to inaccurate impressions and reduced desire to interact with individuals with higher masking, especially women.
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