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- Taking time seriously. A theory of socioemotional selectivity. (1999) (4009)
- The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development (2006) (1897)
- Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory (2005) (1682)
- Social and emotional patterns in adulthood: support for socioemotional selectivity theory. (1992) (1674)
- Socioemotional Selectivity Theory and the Regulation of Emotion in the Second Half of Life (2003) (1587)
- Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span. (2000) (1489)
- Evidence for a Life-Span Theory of Socioemotional Selectivity (1995) (1273)
- Emotion and aging: experience, expression, and control. (1997) (1099)
- Social and emotional aging. (2010) (1092)
- Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. (2003) (1045)
- Time counts: future time perspective, goals, and social relationships. (2002) (1025)
- Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling. (2011) (981)
- At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition (2005) (963)
- Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces (2003) (768)
- The Process of Successful Ageing (1996) (734)
- Motivation for social contact across the life span: a theory of socioemotional selectivity. (1992) (656)
- Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up. (2012) (630)
- The Theory Behind the Age-Related Positivity Effect (2012) (563)
- Emotional aging: recent findings and future trends. (2010) (556)
- Emotion, physiology, and expression in old age. (1991) (554)
- Emotional behavior in long-term marriage. (1995) (552)
- Amygdala Responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger Adults (2004) (534)
- Socioemotional selectivity theory, aging, and health: the increasingly delicate balance between regulating emotions and making tough choices. (2004) (501)
- The Role of Motivation in the Age-Related Positivity Effect in Autobiographical Memory (2004) (499)
- Close emotional relationships in late life: further support for proactive aging in the social domain. (1994) (498)
- Increasing Saving Behavior Through Age-Progressed Renderings of the Future Self (2011) (495)
- Long-term marriage: age, gender, and satisfaction. (1993) (467)
- Choosing social partners: how old age and anticipated endings make people more selective. (1990) (466)
- The influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: a study of long-term marriages. (1994) (422)
- Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults (2007) (397)
- Influence of time on social preferences: implications for life-span development. (1999) (369)
- The salience of emotion across the adult life span. (1994) (365)
- Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion (2006) (332)
- Aging, emotion, and health-related decision strategies: motivational manipulations can reduce age differences. (2007) (303)
- Emotion Regulation and Aging. (2007) (302)
- Sending memorable messages to the old: age differences in preferences and memory for advertisements. (2003) (290)
- Autonomic, subjective, and expressive responses to emotional films in older and younger Chinese Americans and European Americans. (2000) (285)
- Selective narrowing of social networks across adulthood is associated with improved emotional experience in daily life (2014) (265)
- Age-Related Patterns in Social Networks among European Americans and African Americans: Implications for Socioemotional Selectivity across the Life Span (2001) (238)
- Twenty-four Hours of Sleep, Sedentary Behavior, and Physical Activity with Nine Wearable Devices. (2016) (236)
- Emotion in the Second Half of Life (1998) (214)
- Unpleasant situations elicit different emotional responses in younger and older adults. (2008) (214)
- Exercise holds immediate benefits for affect and cognition in younger and older adults. (2013) (210)
- Influence of HIV status and age on cognitive representations of others. (1998) (204)
- Poignancy: mixed emotional experience in the face of meaningful endings. (2008) (203)
- Perspectives on socioemotional selectivity in late life: how personality and social context do (and do not) make a difference. (1998) (197)
- The aging mind : opportunities in cognitive research (2000) (181)
- Individual Differences in Insular Sensitivity During Loss Anticipation Predict Avoidance Learning (2008) (176)
- Goals Change When Life's Fragility is Primed: Lessons Learned From Older Adults, the September 11 Attacks and Sars (2006) (170)
- Handbook of clinical gerontology (1987) (157)
- The Social Context of Emotional Experience (1997) (155)
- Age and emotional experience during mutual reminiscing. (2003) (152)
- Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Life Span: A Life-Span Approach to Social Motivation (1998) (152)
- The positivity effect: a negativity bias in youth fades with age (2018) (149)
- Motivational changes in response to blocked goals and foreshortened time: testing alternatives to socioemotional selectivity theory. (2004) (148)
- Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging. (2008) (143)
- Social-psychological theories and their applications to aging: From individual to collective. (1999) (142)
- Striving to feel good: ideal affect, actual affect, and their correspondence across adulthood. (2013) (127)
- Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (119)
- Following your heart or your head: focusing on emotions versus information differentially influences the decisions of younger and older adults. (2010) (111)
- Positive messaging promotes walking in older adults. (2014) (107)
- The practical handbook of clinical gerontology (1996) (99)
- When Feeling Bad Can Be Good (2013) (97)
- The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2003) (97)
- Age-related changes in social activity. (1987) (96)
- Age Differences in Striatal Delay Sensitivity during Intertemporal Choice in Healthy Adults (2011) (89)
- Social desirability and the measurement of psychological well-being in elderly persons. (1983) (89)
- Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain. (2009) (81)
- Aging, Emotion, and Evolution (2003) (74)
- Responsive Listening in Long-Married Couples: A Psycholinguistic Perspective (1999) (74)
- Affect in Intimate Relationships: The Developmental Course of Marriage (1996) (72)
- Socioemotional Functioning and the Aging Brain (2011) (72)
- Replicating the positivity effect in picture memory in Koreans: evidence for cross-cultural generalizability. (2009) (67)
- Social structures, aging, and self-regulation in the elderly (2006) (67)
- Aging, emotion, and evolution: the bigger picture. (2003) (64)
- Mental health needs of the chronically mentally ill elderly. (1990) (64)
- The Bearable Lightness of Aging: Judgment and Decision Processes in Older Adults (2000) (64)
- Age differences in affective forecasting and experienced emotion surrounding the 2008 US presidential election (2011) (60)
- CHILDREN'S ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ELDERLY: AN INTERGENERATIONAL TECHNIQUE FOR CHANGE (1982) (58)
- Decision strategies in health care choices for self and others: older but not younger adults make adjustments for the age of the decision target. (2008) (57)
- Enhancing the social environments of elderly nursing home residents: are high rates of interaction enough? (1986) (57)
- Selectivity as an Emotion Regulation Strategy: Lessons from Older Adults. (2015) (56)
- The emerging field of behavioral gerontology (1988) (51)
- Emotional experience in the mornings and the evenings: consideration of age differences in specific emotions by time of day (2014) (50)
- The Resilience of the Aging Self (1994) (48)
- Does positivity operate when the stakes are high? Health status and decision making among older adults. (2015) (45)
- Emotional Arousal May Increase Susceptibility to Fraud in Older and Younger Adults (2018) (45)
- Future Time Perspective Scale (2018) (43)
- The Role of Time in the Setting of Social Goals Across the Life Span (1999) (42)
- COMMITTEE ON AGING FRONTIERS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONALITY, AND ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2006) (42)
- Selection and compensation in adulthood. (1995) (40)
- Age and ethnicity differences in storytelling to young children: emotionality, relationality, and socialization. (2002) (39)
- Health Effects on Cognitive Aging (2000) (38)
- Socioemotional Selectivity Theory: The Role of Perceived Endings in Human Motivation. (2021) (36)
- Promoting safe and effective use of OTC medications: CHPA-GSA National Summit. (2014) (36)
- Forewarning Reduces Fraud Susceptibility in Vulnerable Consumers (2014) (35)
- The Aging Mind (2000) (35)
- Behavior management of the dementias (1990) (34)
- Behavioral treatment of the geriatric alcohol abuser: a long term follow-up study. (1985) (33)
- Problem-Solving in the Nursing Home Environment: Age and Experience Differences in Emotional Reactions and Responses (2001) (33)
- A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security (2009) (31)
- Social relationships and adaptation in late life (1998) (31)
- When I'm 64 (2006) (31)
- You never lose the ages you've been: affective perspective taking in older adults. (2010) (31)
- A life span view of emotional functioning in adulthood and old age (2003) (31)
- Age Differences in Coping: Does Less Mean Worse? (1989) (31)
- Knowing loved ones' end-of-life health care wishes: attachment security predicts caregivers' accuracy. (2011) (30)
- Social support among the elderly: Limitations of behavioral interventions. (1986) (30)
- Integrating cognitive and emotion paradigms to address the paradox of aging (2018) (28)
- Aging, time estimation, and emotion. (2001) (25)
- The demonstration of a behavioral intervention for late life paranoia. (1981) (25)
- Focusing on the positive: Age differences in memory for positive, negative, and neutral stimuli (2003) (24)
- Psychological Control in Later Life: Implications for Life-Span Development (1999) (24)
- Human aging: Why is even good news taken as bad? (2003) (22)
- Cultural Variations in Cognition: Implications for Aging Research (2000) (22)
- Future Time Perspective: Time Horizons and Beyond. (2018) (20)
- Committee on Future Directions for Cognitive Research on Aging (2000) (19)
- Will interventions targeting conscientiousness improve aging outcomes? (2014) (19)
- Organizational Behavior Management 1978-1982 (1983) (19)
- Situational assessment of alcohol-related coping skills in wives of alcoholics. (1988) (17)
- Personality Development in Adulthood (2001) (16)
- Promoting walking in older adults: Perceived neighborhood walkability influences the effectiveness of motivational messages (2017) (16)
- Counting down while time flies: implications of age-related time acceleration for goal pursuit across adulthood. (2019) (16)
- Alternative Retirement Paths and Cognitive Performance: Exploring the Role of Preretirement Job Complexity. (2019) (15)
- Mechanisms of Psychological Influence on Physical Health (1989) (14)
- Affect in Intimate Relationships (2009) (14)
- Socioemotional selectivity and mental health among trauma survivors in old age (2003) (14)
- Affect in Intimate Relationships (2009) (14)
- Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults (2021) (13)
- Cognition in context (2000) (12)
- How Does Survey Context Impact Self-reported Fraud Victimization? (2015) (11)
- Mechanisms of Psychological Influence on Physical Health: With Special Attention to the Elderly (1989) (11)
- Heightened Emotional States Increase Susceptibility to Fraud in Older Adults (2016) (10)
- Optimizing Health in Aging Societies (2015) (10)
- A life-course model for healthier ageing: lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (10)
- The influence of anxiety and mental status on social isolation among the elderly in nursing homes (1988) (9)
- Homeostatic Processes in Brain Aging: The Role of Apoptosis, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Regulating Healthy Neural Circuitry in the Aging Brain (2000) (8)
- Developing a Research Agenda to Combat Ageism (2015) (8)
- Social Engagement and Cognition (2006) (7)
- The future is now: Age-progressed images motivate community college students to prepare for their financial futures. (2020) (7)
- Treatment Applications for Psychological and Behavioral Problems of the Elderly in Nursing Homes (1991) (7)
- Psychopathology in the Aged (2002) (6)
- Generalized Effects of Skills Training Among Older Adults (1990) (6)
- Leveraging goals to incentivize healthful behaviors across adulthood. (2020) (6)
- Age-Related Shifts in Neural Circuit Characteristics and Their Impact on Age-Related Cognitive Impairments (2000) (6)
- Rethinking the urban physical environment for century-long lives: from age-friendly to longevity-ready cities (2021) (6)
- The Elusiveness of a Life-span Model of Emotion Regulation. (2014) (5)
- The new age of much older age. (2015) (5)
- Older age may offset genetic influence on affect: The COMT polymorphism and affective well-being across the life span. (2016) (5)
- Children's Attitudes Toward the Elderly: An Intervention. (1980) (5)
- Social relationships in context and as context: Social support and the maintenance of competence in old age. Commentary (1997) (5)
- Cognitive Aging and Adaptive Technologies (2000) (5)
- Age-Progressed Renderings of (2011) (5)
- Aging: Clinical needs and research opportunities (1988) (5)
- Time may heal wounds: Aging and life regrets. (2019) (5)
- 5 Shifts in emotional experience and regulation across adulthood (2012) (4)
- Applying science to human behavior. (2000) (4)
- Age-Related Positivity Effect and Its Implications for Social and Health Gerontology (2015) (3)
- Society and the Individual at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century (2016) (3)
- Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Depression in an Elderly Nursing Home Resident (1986) (3)
- IncreasingSavingBehaviorThrough Age-ProgressedRenderingsof theFutureSelf (2011) (3)
- From static to dynamic: The ongoing dialectic about human development (2008) (3)
- Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Stereotypes on Self and Others (2006) (3)
- Our Aging Population—It May Just Save us All (2014) (3)
- Meaningful endings and mixed emotions: The double-edged sword of reminiscence on good times. (2021) (3)
- Abstract P128: A New Device for Objective Measurement of Sedentary Behavior (2014) (3)
- Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain (2014) (2)
- Age differences in preferences through the lens of socioemotional selectivity theory (2022) (2)
- Erratum: Crystal structure of the extracellular domain of nAChR α1 bound to α-bungarotoxin at 1.94 Å resolution (2007) (2)
- Correction. "Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging". (2009) (2)
- Emotion and prosocial giving in older adults (2021) (2)
- Emotions and Aging (2015) (2)
- "Affect dynamics, affective forecasting, and aging": Correction to Nielsen, Knutson, and Carstensen (2008). (2008) (2)
- Corrigendum: Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults (2007) (2)
- Inside the American couple : new thinking/new challenges (2002) (2)
- Perspectives from the inside: Mental health problems of the elderly in nursing homes (1988) (2)
- THE SIGHTLINES PROJECT: TRACKING KEY INDICATORS OF LONGEVITY ACROSS GENERATIONS (2017) (1)
- 24-hour Measurement Of Sleep, Sedentary, And Physical Activity Behaviors With Wearable Monitors: 431 Board #282 May 27, 9 (2015) (1)
- AGING AND WORK: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL FACTORS AND COMPETENCIES (2018) (1)
- SELECTIVE NARROWING OF PERIPHERAL SOCIAL NETWORKS PREDICTS POOR LONG-TERM COGNITION IN OLD AGE (2019) (1)
- Psychology’s Contributions to Gerontology (2018) (1)
- AGE AND OCCUPATIONAL TIME PERSPECTIVE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PREFERENCE FOR HELPING OTHERS AT WORK (2019) (1)
- Age Associated With Preference for More and Emotionally Meaningful Information in Time-Use Decisions (2020) (1)
- Age and Time Horizons Are Associated With Preferences for Helping Colleagues (2022) (1)
- "Following your heart or your head: Focusing on emotions versus information differentially influences the decisions of younger and older adults": Correction to Mikels et al. (2010). (2010) (1)
- The Social Side of Human Aging (2006) (1)
- 14. Marriage in Old Age (2020) (1)
- Measuring the Adaptation of Countries to Societal Aging (2018) (1)
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Nonhuman Primates: A Prospectus for Research on Aging (2000) (1)
- TIME MATTERS: THE ROLE OF AGE AND MOTIVATIONAL CHANGES IN DECISIONS ABOUT TIME USE (2018) (1)
- Lifelong Learning 1 Running Header: Lifelong Learning Lifelong Learning and Technology (2007) (0)
- Emotion and Aging 1 Socioemotional Functioning and the Aging Brain (2009) (0)
- EMOTIONAL AROUSAL MAY INCREASE SUSCEPTIBIITY TO FRAUD IN OLDER ADULTS (2016) (0)
- Care of the Elderly: A Family Approach. Elsie M. Pinkston , Nathan L. Linsk (1987) (0)
- RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS BY FOCUSING ON EMOTIONAL MEANING: THE ROLE OF FRAMING AND EXPERIENCE (2017) (0)
- Title Amygdala responses to emotionally valenced stimuli in older and younger adults (2004) (0)
- Motivation and Behavioral Change (2006) (0)
- AGE DIFFERENCES IN DISTINCT TYPES OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (2022) (0)
- NIMH Might Be (Partly) Right (2006) (0)
- Understanding the Aging Mind (2000) (0)
- Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (2021) (0)
- Emotion Experience Scale (2015) (0)
- SEEING OUR WAY TO FINANCIAL SECURITY, PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE AGE OF LONGEVITY (2018) (0)
- Inside the American Couple (2020) (0)
- Partner Preference Card-Sort Task (2018) (0)
- TIME HORIZONS VERSUS TIME SAVORING: WHICH BEST PREDICTS AGE-RELATED IMPROVEMENTS IN EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING? (2022) (0)
- CAN ENVISIONING YOUR FUTURE IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH (2018) (0)
- Edwin L. Carstensen, the father (2017) (0)
- Workplace Prosocial Activities and Daily Well-Being During COVID-19 (2021) (0)
- Socioemotional Influences on Decision Making: The Challenge of Choice (2006) (0)
- REVISITING THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED TIME HORIZONS IN SOCIOEMOTIONAL SELECTIVITY THEORY (2022) (0)
- FACILITATING PURPOSE IN LATER LIFE (2017) (0)
- Age-Related Social Selection and Its Associated Emotional and Cognitive Costs Across Adulthood (2020) (0)
- SST in Times of Crisis: Testing socioemotional selectivity theory postulates during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic (2020) (0)
- COVID-19 reduced age differences in social motivation (2023) (0)
- Overview of the Use of Observational Methods in Research on Marriage and Marital Satisfaction (2000) (0)
- Characterizing the Relationship Between the COVID-19 Pandemic and U.S. Classical Musicians' Wellbeing (2022) (0)
- Structure of the Aging Mind (2000) (0)
- Future Time Perspective Scale--German Version (2018) (0)
- Time Perception from Seconds to Lifetimes: How Perceived Time Affects Adult Development (2020) (0)
- MAKE MY DAY: AGE DIFFERENCES IN CONSTRUCTING AN IDEAL “FREE DAY” (2018) (0)
- 2. A Hopeful Future (2012) (0)
- HOW AND WHEN DO OLDER ADULTS EXPERIENCE BETTER EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING? (2017) (0)
- Future Time Perspective (2019) (0)
- STANFORD CENTER ON LONGEVITY PRESENTS: STARTING POINTS FOR REDESIGNING LONGER LIVES (2017) (0)
- Mental Health Needs of the Chronically Mentally Ill Elderly: (338582004-003) (2013) (0)
- Psychological Impacts and Implications of Aging During a Pandemic (2021) (0)
- AGE DIFFERENCES IN EXPOSURE TO NOVEL SITUATIONS IN DAILY LIFE AND ASSOCIATED EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE (2022) (0)
- Peril in the Prediction of Psychopathology from Longitudinal Data Sets. (1989) (0)
- LIMITED FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (2022) (0)
- Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors (2006) (0)
- Social Goal Priority Card-Sort Task (2018) (0)
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