TY - JOUR
T1 - Aging, attention and situation selection
T2 - older adults create mixed emotional environments
AU - Isaacowitz, Derek M.
AU - Ossenfort, Kathryn L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - 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 adults avoid arousal. Thus, both younger and older adults actively construct mixed emotional environments.
AB - 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 adults avoid arousal. Thus, both younger and older adults actively construct mixed emotional environments.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.05.004
DO - 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.05.004
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85019489873
SN - 2352-1546
VL - 15
SP - 6
EP - 9
JO - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
JF - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
ER -