Emotional experience improves with age¶
Carstensen, L. L., Turan, B., Scheibe, S., Ram, N., Ersner-Hershfield, H., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Brooks, K. P., et al. (2011). Emotional experience improves with age: Evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling. Psychology and Aging.
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- Positivity Effect
- Attentional measures — older adults show reduced dot-probe and gaze-tracking bias to negative faces and increased dwell on positive ones, the canonical Mather & Carstensen demonstration. Memory — better recall and recognition for positive autobiographical and stimulus material in older versus younger adults. Decision-making — older adults sample less negative information and weight positive attributes more heavily in consumer choices. Emotional well-being research — elevated late-life satisfaction despite objective decline is attributed in part to the effect, organizing the age-by-satisfaction curve
This sourceThe late-life improvement itself - over ten years of experience sampling showing emotional well-being rising with age, framed within socioemotional selectivity theory; the shape of the age-by-satisfaction curve and the 'despite objective decline' contrast come from elsewhere.
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- Attentional measures — older adults show reduced dot-probe and gaze-tracking bias to negative faces and increased dwell on positive ones, the canonical Mather & Carstensen demonstration. Memory — better recall and recognition for positive autobiographical and stimulus material in older versus younger adults. Decision-making — older adults sample less negative information and weight positive attributes more heavily in consumer choices. Emotional well-being research — elevated late-life satisfaction despite objective decline is attributed in part to the effect, organizing the age-by-satisfaction curve
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