ArticlePsychology and aging2021
Older adults remember more positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Psychology and aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Beyond Resilience: A Mixed-Method, Longitudinal Analysis of Difficulties and Positive Experiences in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Preliminary evidence that remembering together can help younger adults recall the positive.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Sleep dependent autonomic correlates of affect and arousal in younger and older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Differences in autobiographical memories reported using text and voice during everyday life.Memory (Hove, England) · 2023Article
- Perceived event resolution-rather than time-allows older adults to reduce the negativity of their memories.Memory (Hove, England) · 2023Article
- How the 2020 US Presidential election impacted sleep and its relationship to public mood and alcohol consumption.Sleep health · 2022Article
- The power of negative and positive episodic memories.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Late-life suicide in an aging world.Nature aging · 2022Review
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Abstract
The initial phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed our lives dramatically, with stay-at-home orders and extreme physical distancing requirements. The present study suggests that how adults remember these disruptions depends, in part, on their age. In two surveys collected from American and Canadian participants during Summer 2020 (n = 551) and Fall 2020 (n = 506), older age (across ages 18-90 years) was associated with greater reflections on positive aspects of the initial phase of the pandemic. While the pandemic is a shared experience, the way it is remembered may differ across generations, with older age leading to a greater focus on the positive aspects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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