Aging, attention and situation selection: older adults create mixed emotional environments

Volume: 15, Pages: 6 - 9
Published: Jun 1, 2017
Abstract
Studies of age differences in affective experience tend to report positive age trends. Studies of attentional deployment also tend to find older individuals attending more to positive and less to negative stimuli. However, everyday entertainment choices seem to vary by age more in terms of meaningfulness and value than by valence. Relatively few age differences emerge in the valence of choices made in situation selection tasks, though older...
Paper Details
Title
Aging, attention and situation selection: older adults create mixed emotional environments
Published Date
Jun 1, 2017
Volume
15
Pages
6 - 9
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