Age differences in the organization of emotion knowledge: Effects involving valence and time frame

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The age-related differences in the schematic organization of emotion knowledge is examined as younger and older adults reported on their experiences of positive and negative affect. Older adults exhibited stronger valence-related priming effects and weaker time-frame-related priming effects relative to younger adults. Focus is laid on the manner in which age differences in the schematic organization of emotion knowledge might contribute to age differences in self-concept, affective processing and emotional experience.

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Curiosity and mortality in aging adults: a 5-year follow-up of the Western Collaborative Group Study

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A five-year follow-up study reveals that trait and state curiosity has a predictive role in the longevity of older adults aged around 70.6 yrs. Survivors have higher levels of trait and state curiosity than those who died, after excluding the interactional effect of other risk factors. Mortality is unrelated to smoking, education, systolic blood pressure and cholesterol. Both men and women exhibit similar patterns of state curiosity-mortality association.

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Aging, source memory, and emotion

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Two experiments were conducted where younger and older adults' were assessed with the ability to remember contextual information about an event. The findings show that emotional information differentially engages older adults, evoking enhanced elaborations and associations.

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