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 …

The power of negative and positive episodic memories

SE Williams, JH Ford, EA Kensinger - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2022 - Springer
The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

Age advantages in emotional experience persist even under threat from the COVID-19 pandemic

LL Carstensen, YZ Shavit… - Psychological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating unprecedented, sustained, and unavoidable stress for
the entire population, and older people are facing particularly heightened risk of contracting …

Die COVID-19-Pandemie als Herausforderung für die psychische Gesundheit

EL Brakemeier, J Wirkner… - Zeitschrift für …, 2020 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Die COVID-19-Pandemie als multidimensionaler und potenziell toxischer Stressfaktor führt
auch in Deutschland zu psychischen Problemen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung und wird …

Attitudes and attitude change

D Albarracin, S Shavitt - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
This review covers research on attitudes and attitude change published between 2010 and
2017. We characterize this period as one of significant progress toward an understanding of …

What do we know about aging and emotion regulation?

DM Isaacowitz - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are
better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of consumer reviews on online purchasing decisions in older and younger adults

B Von Helversen, K Abramczuk, W Kopeć… - Decision Support …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigated how product attributes, average consumer ratings, and single affect-rich
positive or negative consumer reviews influenced hypothetical online purchasing decisions …

Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory

M Mather, D Clewett, M Sakaki… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

The positivity effect: A negativity bias in youth fades with age

LL Carstensen, M DeLiema - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Neural degradation and cognitive impairment cannot account for the positivity
effect.•Cognitive load reduces the positivity effect.•Constraints on time horizons produce the …

Susceptibility to spear-phishing emails: Effects of internet user demographics and email content

T Lin, DE Capecci, DM Ellis, HA Rocha… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Phishing is fundamental to cyber attacks. This research determined the effect of Internet user
age and email content such as weapons of influence (persuasive techniques that attackers …