At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition : Aging and the Positivity Effect  

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Carstensen, Laura L. ; Mikels, Joseph A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 14 no. 03 (Jun. 2005), page 117-121.
Topik: aging; emotion; cognition; memory; attention
Fulltext: 01. At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition - Aging and the Positivity Effect.pdf (103.74KB)

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Divergent trajectories characterize the aging mind: Processing capacity declines, while judgment, knowledge, andemotionregulationarerelativelyspared.Wemaintain that these different developmental trajectories have implications for emotion–cognition interactions. Following an overview of our theoretical position, we review empirical studies indicating that (a) older adults evidence superior cognitive performance for emotional relative to non-emotional information, (b) age differences are most evident when the emotional content is positively as opposed to negatively valenced, and (c) differences can be accounted for by changes in motivation posited in socioemotional selectivity theory.

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