Reviews lifespan developmental findings about emotional experience in adults (from young
to very old), as well as the cognitive processes we hypothesize are related to age …

Resilience refers to the process by which individuals use the ability to cope with challenges
to successfully adapt to adverse situations, inclining towards the future and hope. The main …

According to psychological and popular opinion, older persons are especially susceptible to
consumer fraud. Research on cognitive and affective aging reveals age-related changes …

Executive functions (EFs) have been identified as processes in the ability to select and apply
adaptive strategies for coping with stress. This study compares executive functioning, short …

Remembering the emotions we have experienced in the past is the core of one's unique life-
experience. However, there are many factors, both at the state and trait level that can affect …

Subjective well-being (SWB) encompasses cognitive components such as life satisfaction
and affective components such as positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). This chapter …

Background While younger adults are more likely to attend to, process, and remember
negative relative to positive information, healthy older adults show the opposite pattern. The …

The psychology of aging usually focuses upon cognitive changes, with a particular focus on
dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. But getting older is about more than simply …

Objectives. Two studies examined the extent to which the age-related positivity effect in
autobiographical recall is the result of age differences in appraisal and memory. Methods. In …

The affective tone of autobiographical memories may be influenced by age in two ways—by
the current age of the remembering individual and by the age of the remembered self at the …