Meta-analysis of the age-related positivity effect: age differences in preferences for positive over negative information.

AE Reed, L Chan, JA Mikels - Psychology and aging, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
In contrast to long-held axioms of old age as a time of “doom and gloom,” mounting
evidence indicates an age-related positivity effect in attention and memory. However …

Prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex and P50 gating in aging and alzheimer's disease

Z Jafari, BE Kolb, MH Mohajerani - Ageing Research Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Inhibition plays a crucial role in many functional domains, such as cognition, emotion, and
actions. Studies on cognitive aging demonstrate changes in inhibitory mechanisms are age …

Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.

DA Burr, JJ Castrellon, DH Zald, GR Samanez-Larkin - Emotion, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Older adults report experiencing improved emotional health, such as more intense positive
affect and less intense negative affect. However, there are mixed findings on whether older …

The emotion paradox in the aging body and brain

M Mather - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With age, parasympathetic activity decreases, while sympathetic activity increases. Thus, the
typical older adult has low heart rate variability (HRV) and high noradrenaline levels …

Differences in pain-related fear acquisition and generalization: an experimental study comparing patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls

A Meulders, A Jans, JWS Vlaeyen - Pain, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Anomalies in fear learning, such as failure to inhibit fear to safe stimuli, lead to sustained
anxiety, which in turn may augment pain. In the same vein, stimulus generalization is …

Age-related reductions in arousal-enhanced memory are moderated by trait emotion regulation

K Lee, B Sayre, TA James, A Duarte - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Emotional arousal is known to enhance episodic memory in young adults. However,
compared to valence, little is known about how healthy aging impacts arousal-enhanced …

Lighting to make you feel better: Improving the mood of elderly people with affective ambiences

A Kuijsters, J Redi, B De Ruyter, I Heynderickx - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Current lighting technologies extend the options for changing the appearance of rooms and
closed spaces, as such creating ambiences with an affective meaning. Using intelligence …

Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention.

BL Kennedy, R Huang, M Mather - Emotion, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Compared with younger adults, older adults tend to favor positive information more than
negative information in their attention and memory. This “positivity effect” has been observed …

Emotional arousal and recognition memory are differentially reflected in pupil diameter responses during emotional memory for negative events in younger and older …

D Hämmerer, A Hopkins, MJ Betts, A Maaß… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
A better memory for negative emotional events is often attributed to a conjoint impact of
increased arousal and noradrenergic modulation (NA). A decline in NA during aging is well …

Sustained incentive value of heroin-related cues in short-and long-term abstinent heroin users

KH Preller, M Wagner, C Sulzbach, K Hoenig… - European …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Models of addiction and addiction memory propose that drug-associated cues elicit
incentive effects in drug users, which play an important role in maintenance of drug use and …