Despite an initial focus on negative threatening stimuli, researchers have more recently
expanded the investigation of attentional biases toward positive rewarding stimuli. The …

The “positivity effect” refers to an age-related trend that favors positive over negative stimuli
in cognitive processing. Relative to their younger counterparts, older people attend to and …

The following article presents the theoretical model of strength and vulnerability integration
(SAVI) to explain factors that influence emotion regulation and emotional well-being across …

Contrasting cognitive and physical decline, research in emotional aging suggests that most
older adults enjoy high levels of affective well-being and emotional stability into their 70s …

This paper reviews age differences in emotion processing and how they may relate to age‐
related changes in the brain. Compared with younger adults, older adults react less to …

Although aging is associated with clear declines in physical and cognitive processes,
emotional functioning fares relatively well. Consistent with this behavioral profile, two core …

Fluid intelligence decreases with age, yet evidence about age declines in decision-making
quality is mixed: Depending on the study, older adults make worse, equally good, or even …

Compared with younger adults, older adults have a relative preference to attend to and
remember positive over negative information. This is known as the “positivity effect,” and …

Abstract Purpose of Review Research on psychological well-being in later life has identified
strengths and vulnerabilities that occur with aging. We review the conceptual and …

Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) maintains that perceived constraints on time
horizons motivate people to optimize emotionally meaningful experiences in the present …