Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive mechanisms underlying the positivity effect.
Abstract
Younger adults tend to remember negative information better than positive or neutral information (negativity bias). The negativity bias is reduced in aging, with older adults occasionally exhibiting superior memory for positive, as opposed to negative or neutral, information (positivity bias). Two experiments with younger (N=24 in Experiment 1, N=25 in Experiment 2; age range: 18-35 years) and older adults (N=24 in both experiments; age range:...
Paper Details
Title
Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive mechanisms underlying the positivity effect.
Published Date
Jan 1, 2008
Journal
Volume
23
Issue
4
Pages
859 - 872
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