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E ective social and emotional functioning is essential to healthy relationships at any age. Although the understanding of socioemotional functioning in late life has increased in recent decades, most of the existing research relies on information reported by individuals on questionnaires or during interviews. Social neuroscience promises to uncover important and novel information that can greatly enhance this growing area of research. In particular, social neuroscience is allowing tests of hypotheses that cannot be tested well using traditional behavioral methods. roughout this chapter we identify the important contributions that social neuroscience has made to our understanding of the socioemotional aspects of adult development and aging. e h t t a h t s t s e g g u s h c r a e s e r f o y d o b g n i w o r g A ability to regulate emotion remains stable and in some aspects may improve across the adult life o t d e r a p m o C . ) 7 0 0 2 , n e s n e t s r a C & s e l r a h C ( n a p s their younger counterparts, older adults recover more quickly from negative emotional states, are less likely to respond to verbal slights with anger Abstract