The positivity effect: a negativity bias in youth fades with age (original) (raw)

The Theory Behind the Age-Related Positivity Effect

Laura Carstensen

Frontiers in Psychology, 2012

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

Mara Mather

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005

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Aging is associated with positive responding to neutral information but reduced recovery from negative information

Stacey Schaefer

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2010

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Age-related changes in processing positive and negative feedback: Is there a positivity effect for older adults?

Nicola Ferdinand, Jutta Kray

Biological Psychology, 2013

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Do Older and Younger Adults Prefer the Positive or Avoid the Negative?

Nicola Mammarella

Brain Sciences, 2022

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The role of automatic and controlled processes in the positivity effect for older adults

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Implicit and explicit measures of positivity effect in the elderly adults

Michela Panebianco, Prof. RA Fabio

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Are Age Effects in Positivity Influenced by the Valence of Distractors?

Stefanie Becker

PLOS ONE, 2015

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Mood, motivation, and misinformation: Aging and affective state influences on memory

L. Popham, Thomas Hess

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The positivity effect in older adults: The role of affective interference and inhibition

Eva Dierckx

Aging & Mental Health, 2010

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The Role of Dispositional Reappraisal in the Age-Related Positivity Effect

Tianyuan Li, Helene Fung

The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2011

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Positivity effect in aging: Evidence for the primacy of positive responses to emotional ambiguity

Maital Neta

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The Role of Motivation In the Age-Related Positivity Effect In Autobiographical Memory

Mara Mather

Psychological Science, 2004

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Prioritizing positivity across the adult lifespan: initial evidence for differential associations with positive and negative emotions

Hadassah Littman-Ovadia

Quality of Life Research, 2018

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Preferring positivity : age differences in judgments of learning and memory for emotionally-valenced words

Edie Sanders

2018

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Does Positivity Operate When the Stakes Are High? Health Status and Decision Making Among Older Adults

Laura Carstensen

Psychology and aging, 2015

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Personal relevance modulates the positivity bias in recall of emotional pictures in older adults

Colin Macleod

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2008

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The negativity bias is eliminated in older adults: Age-related reduction in event-related brain potentials associated with evaluative categorization

Stacey Wood

Psychology and Aging, 2006

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The Time Course of Age-Related Preferences Toward Positive and Negative Stimuli

Eric Allard

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Information content moderates positivity and negativity biases in memory

Paul Dennis, Thomas Hess

Psychology and Aging, 2013

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The negativity bias, revisited: Evidence from neuroscience measures and an individual differences approach

Catherine Norris

Social Neuroscience, 2019

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It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults

Alla Yankouskaya, PhD

Psychological Research-psychologische Forschung, 2021

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Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion

Laura Carstensen

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, 2006

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Familiar smiling faces in Alzheimer's disease: Understanding the positivity-related recognition bias

Katja Werheid

Neuropsychologia, 2011

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Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults’ recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory

Mara Mather

Memory & Cognition, 2016

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Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: Evidence from a past/future source memory task

Ian McDonough

Memory, 2011

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Stereotype Threat Reduces the Positivity of Older Adults’ Recall

Shyuan Ching Tan

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Cognitive reserve and emotional stimuli in older individuals: Level of education moderates the age-related positivity effect

Davide Bruno

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