Socially assistive robots are being developed and tested to support social interactions and
assist with healthcare needs, including in the context of dementia. These technologies bring …

Decades of studies identify personality traits as prospectively associated with life outcomes.
However, previous investigations of personality characteristic-outcome associations have …

We address a key issue at the intersection of emotion, psychopathology, and public health—
the startling lack of attention to people who experience benign outcomes, and even flourish …

Background Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD)
reliably precede and predict one another. However, there is insufficient data on mediators …

OBJECTIVE: How work conditions relate to parents' food choice coping strategies. DESIGN:
Pilot telephone survey. SETTING: City in the northeastern United States (US) …

Marital status is associated with psychological well-being, with the married faring better than
the formerly and never-married. However, this conclusion derives from research focusing …

Although there is little dispute about the impact of the US opioid epidemic on recent
mortality, there is less consensus about whether trends reflect increasing despair among …

Positive emotions serve important functions for mental health. Susceptibility to reduced
positive emotions in the context of stress may increase risk for poor mental health outcomes …

Given the paucity of research on the cognitive implications of social media use in middle and
late adulthood, we sought to understand the relations between middle-aged and older …

Background Many studies have evaluated the stress-cognition association, but few have
captured the cumulative nature of stress or distinguished the influences of stressors …