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AGING AND WORK: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL FACTORS AND COMPETENCIES

Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging.

scientific article published on June 2008

Age Differences in Striatal Delay Sensitivity during Intertemporal Choice in Healthy Adults.

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Age and emotional experience during mutual reminiscing.

scientific article published on September 2003

Age and ethnicity differences in storytelling to young children: emotionality, relationality, and socialization

scientific article published in December 2002

Age differences in affective forecasting and experienced emotion surrounding the 2008 US presidential election.

scientific article

Age differences in coping: does less mean worse

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Age-related patterns in social networks among European Americans and African Americans: implications for socioemotional selectivity across the life span

scientific article published on January 2001

Aging and attentional biases for emotional faces

scientific article published in September 2003

Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults

scientific article published in June 2003

Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory

scientific article

Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion

scholarly article published in 2006

Aging, emotion, and evolution: the bigger picture

scientific article published in December 2003

Aging, emotion, and health-related decision strategies: motivational manipulations can reduce age differences

scientific article published in March 2007

Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults

scientific article published in April 2004

Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults

scientific article

Applying science to human behavior

scientific article

At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition

Autonomic, subjective, and expressive responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese Americans and European Americans

scientific article published in December 2000

Behavioral treatment of the geriatric alcohol abuser: a long term follow-up study

scientific article published on January 1985

Choosing social partners: how old age and anticipated endings make people more selective

scientific article

Close emotional relationships in late life: further support for proactive aging in the social domain.

scientific article published in June 1994

Correction. "Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging".

scientific article published on October 2009

Decision strategies in health care choices for self and others: older but not younger adults make adjustments for the age of the decision target

scientific article published on March 2008

Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Does positivity operate when the stakes are high? Health status and decision making among older adults

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Emotion and aging: Experience, expression, and control ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Emotion, physiology, and expression in old age.

scientific article published in March 1991

Emotional aging: recent findings and future trends.

scientific article

Emotional arousal may increase susceptibility to fraud in older and younger adults

scientific article published in March 2018

Emotional behavior in long-term marriage

scientific article published in March 1995

Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling.

scientific article

Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span.

scientific article published in October 2000

Emotional experience in the mornings and the evenings: consideration of age differences in specific emotions by time of day.

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

Enhancing the social environments of elderly nursing home residents: are high rates of interaction enough?

scientific article

Exercise holds immediate benefits for affect and cognition in younger and older adults

scientific article published on June 2013

Following your heart or your head: focusing on emotions versus information differentially influences the decisions of younger and older adults.

scientific article published on March 2010

Forewarning reduces fraud susceptibility in vulnerable consumers

scientific article

How Does Survey Context Impact Self-reported Fraud Victimization?

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning.

scientific article published on April 2008

Influence of HIV status and age on cognitive representations of others

scientific article

Influence of time on social preferences: implications for life-span development

scientific article published in December 1999

Integrating cognitive and emotion paradigms to address the paradox of aging

scientific article

Knowing loved ones' end-of-life health care wishes: attachment security predicts caregivers' accuracy.

scientific article published on November 2011

Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier

TEDxWomen 2011

Long-term marriage: age, gender, and satisfaction

scientific article published in June 1993

MAKE MY DAY: AGE DIFFERENCES IN CONSTRUCTING AN IDEAL “FREE DAY”

Mental health needs of the chronically mentally ill elderly

scientific article published in June 1990

Motivation for social contact across the life span: a theory of socioemotional selectivity

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Motivational changes in response to blocked goals and foreshortened time: testing alternatives to socioemotional selectivity theory

scientific article

Older age may offset genetic influence on affect: The COMT polymorphism and affective well-being across the life span

scientific article published on May 2016

Perspectives on socioemotional selectivity in late life: how personality and social context do (and do not) make a difference

scientific article published in January 1998

Poignancy: mixed emotional experience in the face of meaningful endings

scientific article

Positive messaging promotes walking in older adults

scientific article

Promoting safe and effective use of OTC medications: CHPA-GSA National Summit

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

Promoting walking in older adults: Perceived neighborhood walkability influences the effectiveness of motivational messages

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: evidence for cross-cultural generalizability

scientific article published on September 2009

Selective Narrowing of Social Networks Across Adulthood is Associated With Improved Emotional Experience in Daily Life

scientific article

Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain.

scientific article published on September 2009

Selectivity as an Emotion Regulation Strategy: Lessons from Older Adults

scientific article published on June 2015

Sending memorable messages to the old: age differences in preferences and memory for advertisements

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

Social and emotional aging

scientific article published on January 2010

Social and emotional patterns in adulthood: support for socioemotional selectivity theory

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Social desirability and the measurement of psychological well-being in elderly persons

scientific article published in November 1983

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory and the Regulation of Emotion in the Second Half of Life

article by Laura L. Carstensen et al published 2003 in Motivation and Emotion

Socioemotional selectivity theory, aging, and health: the increasingly delicate balance between regulating emotions and making tough choices

scientific article

Striving to feel good: Ideal affect, actual affect, and their correspondence across adulthood ⬇️

scientific article published on October 29, 2012

TIME MATTERS: THE ROLE OF AGE AND MOTIVATIONAL CHANGES IN DECISIONS ABOUT TIME USE

Taking time seriously. A theory of socioemotional selectivity

scientific article (publication date: March 1999)

The Elusiveness of a Life-span Model of Emotion Regulation

scientific article published on May 2014

The Theory Behind the Age-Related Positivity Effect ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

The demonstration of a behavioral intervention for late life paranoia

scientific article published on 01 June 1981

The influence of a sense of time on human development

scientific article

The influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: a study of long-term marriages

scientific article published in July 1994

The new age of much older age.

scientific article published in February 2015

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

article

The role of motivation in the age-related positivity effect in autobiographical memory

scientific article published in March 2004

Time counts: future time perspective, goals, and social relationships

scientific article

Twenty-four Hours of Sleep, Sedentary Behavior, and Physical Activity with Nine Wearable Devices

scientific article

Unpleasant situations elicit different emotional responses in younger and older adults

scientific article

When Feeling Bad Can Be Good: Mixed Emotions Benefit Physical Health Across Adulthood

scientific article published on January 2013

Will interventions targeting conscientiousness improve aging outcomes?

scientific article

You never lose the ages you've been: affective perspective taking in older adults

scientific article

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