Socioemotional selectivity theory: The role of perceived endings in human motivation

LL Carstensen - The Gerontologist, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) is a theory of life-span development grounded in the
uniquely human ability to monitor time. SST maintains that the approach of endings …

Determinants of social cognitive aging: Predicting resilience and risk

JD Henry, SA Grainger… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on conceptual and empirical research on determinants of social
cognitive aging. We present an integrated model [the social cognitive resource (SCoRe) …

Social frailty in late adulthood: social cognitive and psychological well-being correlates

JD Henry, SP Coundouris, J Mead… - The Journals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Social frailty poses a major threat to successful aging, but its social cognitive and
psychological well-being correlates remain poorly understood. This cross-sectional study …

COVID-19 and perceiving finitude: Associations with future time perspective, death anxiety, and ideal life expectancy.

FS Rupprecht, K Martin, ST Kamin… - Psychology and …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The coronavirus pandemic threatens the health, future, and life of individuals and might
hence accentuate perceptions of the fragility and finitude of life. We investigated how …

Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic's silver lining effects on life satisfaction.

Y Guan, D Jiang, C Wu, H Deng, S Su… - American …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly
harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been …

The finitude of life—How mortality salience affects consumer behavior: A review

F Gobrecht, A Marchand - Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of mortality salience (MS) on consumer behavior has been well‐established
over the last 25 years. However, research findings have provided divergent insights with …

Age-related changes in the role of social motivation: Implications for healthy aging

DM Isaacowitz, AM Freund, U Mayr… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prior research has established the importance of social relations and social embeddedness
for motivation in healthy aging. Thus, social orientation appears to be essential for …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing future well-being with artificial intelligence: self-organizing maps (SOMs) for the identification of islands of emotional stability

F Galkin, K Kochetov, M Keller, A Zhavoronkov… - Aging (Albany …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this article, we present a deep learning model of human psychology that can predict one's
current age and future well-being. We used the model to demonstrate that one's baseline …

The Positivity Effect

SJ Barber, H Kim - … pathways of cognitive aging: Motivational and …, 2021 - books.google.com
Older adults are often stereotyped as being hopeless, despondent, and depressed (eg,
Hummert et al., 1994). However, in contrast to this “doom and gloom” view, research has …

Are social interactions perceived as more meaningful in older adulthood?

J Nikitin, M Luchetti, N Alimanovic… - Psychology and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Social relationships accompany us throughout adulthood and are among the most important
sources of meaning in a person's life. However, little is known about age differences in …