The “positivity effect” refers to an age-related trend that favors positive over negative stimuli
in cognitive processing. Relative to their younger counterparts, older people attend to and …

Contrasting cognitive and physical decline, research in emotional aging suggests that most
older adults enjoy high levels of affective well-being and emotional stability into their 70s …

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 …

Psychological theories are statements of constraint. The role of hypothesis testing in
psychology is to test whether specific theoretical constraints hold in data. Bayesian statistics …

In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different
disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Experimental studies indicate that recognition of emotions, particularly negative emotions,
decreases with age. However, there is no consensus at which age the decrease in emotion …

Despite the fact that physical health and cognitive abilities decline with aging, the ability to
regulate emotion remains stable and in some aspects improves across the adult life span …

For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other
individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary …

Current theory and research on emotion and aging suggests that (a) older adults report
more positive affective experience (more happiness) than younger adults,(b) older adults …