Social and Emotional Aging

Social and emotional aging.

The past several decades have witnessed unidimensional decline models of aging give way to life-span developmental models that consider how specific processes and strategies facilitate adaptive aging. In part, this shift was provoked by the stark contrast between findings that clearly demonstrate decreased biological, physiological, and cognitive capacity and those suggesting that people are ge...

Emotional Climate: Social Structure and Emotional Dynamics

Aging and goal-directed emotional attention: distraction reverses emotional biases.

Previous findings reveal that older adults favor positive over negative stimuli in both memory and attention (for a review, see Mather & Carstensen, 2005). This study used eye tracking to investigate the role of cognitive control in older adults' selective visual attention. Younger and older adults viewed emotional-neutral and emotional-emotional pairs of faces and pictures while their gaze pat...

Emotional Intelligence 1 Running head: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION Emotional Intelligence and Social Interaction

Two studies found positive relationships between the ability to manage emotions and the quality of social interactions, supporting the predictive and incremental validity of an ability measure of emotional intelligence, the MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, 2002). In a sample of 118 American college students (Study 1), higher scores on the managing emotions subscale of t...

Psychosocial biomarker research: integrating social, emotional and economic factors into population studies of aging and health.

There are complex reciprocal relationships between health and social, emotional and economic factors in aging populations. Social and affective neurosciences are rapidly developing an understanding of the mechanisms underlying these phenomena using sophisticated behavioural, neuroimaging and psychophysiological methods. These techniques are often complex and expensive, so are generally used in ...