The theory behind the age-related positivity effect

The positivity effect refers to an age-related trend that favors positive over negative stimuli in cognitive processing. Relative to their younger counterparts, older people attend to and remember more positive than negative information. Since the effect was initially identified and the conceptual b...

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Main Authors: Andrew E Reed, Laura L Carstensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00339/full