Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces

By Mara Mather, L. Carstensen. Psychology Science, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Decline or improvement?: Age-related differences in facial expression recognition (2007, background): “003 view: they show that older adults’ attentional (Mather and Carstensen, 2003; Rosler et al., 2005) and memory (Charles et al.”
Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory. (2005, methodology): “A smaller proportion of what older adults remember is negative [19,32–34] and their memories are more likely to be distorted in a positive direction [31,39,40,42] By contrast, some studies that examined memory for emotional stimuli found no interactions of valence and age [35–37] or only a…”
A lifespan perspective on emotion regulation, stress, and well-being in the workplace (2013, background): “For example, when shown pairs of faces, one sad or angry and one neutral, older adults orient away from the negative faces more so than young adults (Mather & Carstensen, 2003) and are better able to inhibit negative information when asked to do so (Hahn, Carlson, Singer, & Gronlund, 2006).”
Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationship between business owners' age and venture growth (2012, neutral): “Research showed that aging and the shortening of individuals' perceived future time affect attentional processes (Mather and Carstensen, 2003; Ouwehand et al., 2008).”
A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: implications for neuropsychological models of aging. (2008, background): “…rather than in pairs, older and younger adults look at negative (sad and angry) photographs for longer than positive (happy) photographs (Mather and Carstensen, 2003; Sullivan et al., 2007), indicating that they do not avoid attending to negative emotional information in a very general…”
Goal-directed memory: the role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional memory. (2005, background): “In one study, participants were asked to indicate as quickly as they could whether a dot appeared on either the right or left side of the screen (Mather & Carstensen, 2003).”
Age differences in instability, contingency, and level of self-esteem across the life span (2011, neutral): “For example, older people show an attentional bias away from emotionally negative information toward positive information (LabouvieVief, 2003; Mather & Carstensen, 2003), are better able to transform a conflict into a life lesson (Diehl, Coyle, & Labouvie-Vief, 1996, see also John & Gross, 2004),…”
At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition (2005, methodology): “In another study, we examined attention to pairs of images ( Mather & Carstensen, 2003 ).”
Socioemotional selectivity theory, aging, and health: the increasingly delicate balance between regulating emotions and making tough choices. (2004, background): “Recent work conducted in our laboratory suggests that differential processing of positive and negative material may start at a very early stage of processing and influence what types of information are encoded (Mather et al., 2003).”
Cognition, Persuasion and Decision Making in Older Consumers (2005, background): “Older adults ignore negative faces in their initial attention (Mather and Carstensen, 2003) and remember a smaller proportion of negative pictures relative to positive pictures from a slide show than do younger or middle-aged adults (Charles et al., 2003).”
Emotional aging: recent findings and future trends. (2010, neutral): “…Mather, & Carstensen, 2004; Kisley, Wood, & Burrows, 2007; Kwon, Scheibe, Samanez-Larkin, Tsai, & Carstensen, 2009; Löckenhoff & Carstensen, 2007; Mather & Carstensen, 2003; Mather, Knight, & McCaffrey, 2005; SamanezLarkin et al., 2007; Schlagman, Schulz, & Kvavilashvili, 2006; Spaniol, Voss, &…”
Growing to Trust (2015, background): “…thus, demonstrating a developmental trend, which is consistent with other findings from life-span developmental psychology on basic social–cognitive (Mather & Carstensen, 2003), emotional (Carstensen et al., 2011), and motivational (Haase, Heckhausen, & Wrosch, 2013) changes across the life span.”
Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion (2006, background): “When two faces appear on a computer screen side by side for 1, followed by a dot in the same location as one of the faces, older adults are slower to indicate which side of the screen the dot is on if it appeared behind a negative face than a neutral or a positive face (Mather & Carstensen, 2003).”