Highlights•Neural degradation and cognitive impairment cannot account for the positivity
effect.•Cognitive load reduces the positivity effect.•Constraints on time horizons produce the …

When compared to younger adults, older adults tend to favor positive over negative
information in attention and memory. This is known as the positivity effect. Although this is a …

Compared with younger adults, older adults tend to favor positive information more than
negative information in their attention and memory. This “positivity effect” has been observed …

Episodic memory deficits are evident in late‐life depression (LLD) and are associated with
subtle synaptic and neurochemical changes in the medial temporal lobes (MTL). However …

Older adults are often stereotyped as being hopeless, despondent, and depressed (eg,
Hummert et al., 1994). However, in contrast to this “doom and gloom” view, research has …

Retirement has been associated with cognitive decline beyond normal age-related decline.
However, there are many individual differences in retirement that can influence cognition …

Objectives As people get older, they show a relative preference to remember positive
information over negative information. In two experiments, we tested whether the positivity of …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review aims to summarize current research on the
psychological and neural substrates of emotion and memory in aging. Recent Findings …

Retirement has been associated with declines in memory beyond typical age-related
memory decline. This may impact the ability to remember distinct events, as older adults …

The story recall task requires complex cognitive functions since it imitates everyday
communication. It provides promising discrimination between individuals with cognition …