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

By Mara Mather, L. Carstensen. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Older worker, different actor? Linking age and emotional labor strategies (2010, background): “…develop both greater emotion regulation skill as they age (Gross et al., 1997) and a biased tendency to filter out negative situational information (Mather & Carstensen, 2005), suggesting that older adults have both the motive and the ability to down-regulate negative emotional experiences in the…”
Meta-analysis of the age-related positivity effect: age differences in preferences for positive over negative information. (2014, background): “The term “positivity effect” refers to an observed age-related increase in the preference for positive over negative information in attention and memory (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Mather & Carstensen, 2005).”
The Adaptive Nature of Memory and Its Illusions (2011, background): “This positivity has also been linked to enhanced emotional regulation (Mather & Cartensen, 2005) that, in turn, has been interpreted as being an extremely adaptive function of memory—or more accurately, of false remembering (Newman & Lindsay, 2009).”
Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model. (2006, background): “In conclusion, top–down control has been a useful construct for understanding the basis of selective attention in both cognitive (Desimone and Duncan, 1995; Kastner and Ungerleider, 2001; Miller and Cohen, 2001) and emotional domains (Mather and Carstensen, 2005; Ochsner and Gross, 2005).”
The Role of Cognitive Control in Older Adults' Emotional Well-Being (2008, methodology): “Unlike older control participants, older adults in dividedattention conditions are negatively biased when processing emotional material in memory and visual attention tasks (Knight et al., 2007; Mather & Knight, 2005).”
The Theory Behind the Age-Related Positivity Effect (2012, background): “Since the effect was initially identified and the conceptual basis articulated (Mather and Carstensen, 2005) scores of independent replications and related findings have appeared in the literature.”
Selection, Optimization, and Compensation in the Domain of Emotion Regulation: Applications to Adolescence, Older Age, and Major Depressive Disorder (2012, background): “There is limited evidence that this occurs; relative to younger adults, older adults are known to deploy their attention to positive more than negative information (Mather & Carstensen, 2005).”
Emotional Experience Improves With Age: Evidence Based on Over 10 Years of Experience Sampling (2011, positive): “…more positively than younger people (Carstensen, Mikels, & Mather, 2006; Charles, Mather, & Carstensen, 2003; Isaacowitz, Wadlinger, Goren, & Wilson, 2006; Kim, Healey, Goldstein, Hasher, & Wiprzycka, 2008; Levine & Bluck, 1997; Mather & Carstensen, 2005; see also Carstensen & Löckenhoff, 2003).”
The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing (2014, background): “This ability represents a potentially dynamic interaction between age-related declines in recognizing facial expressions of emotion [23,24] and age-related stability or even improvement in many aspects of emotional processing [25,26].”
Emotional aging: recent findings and future trends. (2010, background): “As originally defined, the effect simply refers to a shifting ratio of positive to negative information with advancing age (Charles, Mather, & Carstensen, 2003; Mather & Carstensen, 2005).”