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ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2017

Aging and emotions: experience, regulation, and perception.

Derek M Isaacowitz, Kimberly M Livingstone, Vanessa L Castro

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Review in Current opinion in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Sleep dependent autonomic correlates of affect and arousal in younger and older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026
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  4. Investigating the Effects of Discrimination Experiences on Everyday Metamemory Accuracy.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024
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  6. Aging and Mixed Emotions: A Word-Suffix Approach in Free Recall.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  7. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Women in the Women's Health Initiative.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022
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  19. Aging and the Social Ecology of Everyday Interpersonal Perception: What is Perceived, in Whom, and Where?The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Derek M IsaacowitzPsychology Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: dmi@neu.edu.
Kimberly M LivingstonePsychology Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
Vanessa L CastroPsychology Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Emotion Regulation in Adulthood and Aging: Preference and EffectivenessR01AG048731 · NIA · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI ISAACOWITZ, DEREK M · 2014 to 2018
$1.2M
Everyday Socioemotional Perception in the Context of AgingF32AG048687 · NIA · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI CASTRO, VANESSA LOPES · 2015 to 2017
$164k
NIA NIH HHS F32 AG048687NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048731
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whereas some theories suggest that emotion-related processes become more positive with age, recent empirical findings on affective experience, emotion regulation, and emotion perception depict a more nuanced picture. Though there is some evidence for positive age trajectories in affective experience, results are mixed for emotion regulation and largely negative for emotion perception. Thus, current findings suggest that the effects of age on emotion vary across different affective domains; age patterns are also influenced by different moderators, including contextual factors and individual differences.

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Emotional IntelligenceEmotionsAgingHumans

Identifiers

PMID28950978
PMCPMC5659637

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