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Meta-Analysis of the Age-Related Positivity Effect: Age Differences in Preferences for Positive Over Negative Information by Reed, Andrew E, Chan, Larry, Mikels, Joseph A

“…In contrast to long-held axioms of old age as a time of "doom and gloom," mounting evidence indicates an age-related positivity effect in attention and memory…”
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Affective Working Memory: An Integrative Psychological Construct by Mikels, Joseph A., Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A.

“…When people ruminate about an unfortunate encounter with a loved one, savor a long-sought accomplishment, or hold in mind feelings from a marvelous or…”
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Me Time, or We Time? Age Differences in Motivation for Exercise by Steltenpohl, Crystal N, Shuster, Michael, Peist, Eric, Pham, Amber, Mikels, Joseph A

“…Increasing exercise continues to be an important health issue for both older and younger adults. Researchers have suggested several methods for increasing…”
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Reactive, Agentic, Apathetic, or Challenged? Aging, Emotion, and Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Young, Nathaniel A, Waugh, Christian E, Minton, Alyssa R, Charles, Susan T, Haase, Claudia M, Mikels, Joseph A

“…Advanced age is generally associated with improved emotional well-being, but the coronavirus 2019 pandemic unleashed a global stressor that gravely threatened…”
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Motives Matter More With Age: Adult Age Differences in Response to Sociomoral Violations by Minton, Alyssa R., Snyder, Jason S., Young, Nathaniel A., Graupmann, Verena, Mikels, Joseph A.

“…Moral judgments and emotional reactions to sociomoral violations are heavily impacted by a perpetrator's intentions and desires, which pose a threat to social…”
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At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition: Aging and the Positivity Effect by Carstensen, Laura L., Mikels, Joseph A.

“…Divergent trajectories characterize the aging mind: Processing capacity declines, while judgment, knowledge, and emotion regulation are relatively spared. We…”
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Paths to positivity: the relationship of age differences in appraisals of control to emotional experience by Young, Nathaniel A, Mikels, Joseph A

“…Evidence suggests that older adults experience greater emotional well-being compared to younger adults. Appraisal theories of emotion posit that differences in…”
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Can Emotional Acceptance Buffer the Link Between Executive Functioning and Mental Health in Late Life? by Rompilla, David B., Stephens, Jaquelyn E., Martinez, Matias, Mikels, Joseph A., Haase, Claudia M.

“…Emotional acceptance is thought to play an important role in protecting mental health. However, few studies have examined emotional acceptance among older…”
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Poignancy: Mixed Emotional Experience in the Face of Meaningful Endings by Ersner-Hershfield, Hal, Mikels, Joseph A, Sullivan, Sarah J, Carstensen, Laura L

“…The experience of mixed emotions increases with age. Socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that mixed emotions are associated with shifting time horizons…”
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Falling Hard, But Recovering Resoundingly: Age Differences in Stressor Reactivity and Recovery by Minton, Alyssa R., Waugh, Christian E., Snyder, Jason S., Charles, Susan T., Haase, Claudia M., Mikels, Joseph A.

“…Strength and vulnerability integration (SAVI) theory (Charles, 2010) posits that age differences in emotional experiences vary based on the distance from an…”
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Getting to the Heart of the Matter in Later Life: The Central Role of Affect in Health Message Framing by Mikels, Joseph A, Young, Nathaniel A, Liu, Xiaomei, Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A L

“…Abstract Background and Objectives Adopting healthy behaviors is often influenced by message framing; gain-framed messages emphasize the benefits of engaging…”
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The appraisal approach to aging and emotion: An integrative theoretical framework by Young, Nathaniel A., Minton, Alyssa R., Mikels, Joseph A.

“…•We integrate appraisal theory with theories of aging and emotion.•We identify the appraisal processes that may differ for younger and older adults.•We posits…”
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The Sure Thing: The Role of Integral Affect in Risky Choice Framing by Young, Nathaniel A, Shuster, Michael M, Mikels, Joseph A

“…When faced with a decision, certain aspects of the decision itself shape our affective responses to choice options, which, in turn, influence our choices…”
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Positivity Helps the Medicine Go Down: Leveraging Framing and Affective Contexts to Enhance the Likelihood to Take Medications by Minton, Alyssa R., Young, Nathaniel A., Nievera, Madeline A., Mikels, Joseph A.

“…Affect can influence judgments and decision-making in multiple ways. One way is through (a) integral affect, or affect related to the choice at hand, and…”
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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Relationship Between Affect and Risk-Seeking in the Framing Effect by CHEUNG, Elaine, MIKELS, Joseph A

“…Engagement in risky behavior has traditionally been attributed to an underestimation of the associated risks, but recent perspectives suggest that affective…”
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Affective forecasting: A selective relationship with working memory for emotion by Frank, Colleen C, Iordan, Alexandru D, Ballouz, Tara L, Mikels, Joseph A, Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A

“…Affective forecasting (AF), the ability to predict one's future feelings, is important for decision making. We posit that AF entails the ability to maintain…”
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Getting the Message Across: Age Differences in the Positive and Negative Framing of Health Care Messages by SHAMASKIN, Andrea M, MIKELS, Joseph A, REED, Andrew E

“…Although valenced health care messages influence impressions, memory, and behavior (Levin, Schneider, & Gaeth, 1998) and the processing of valenced information…”
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The Psycholinguistic and Affective Processing of Framed Health Messages Among Younger and Older Adults by Liu, Xiaomei, Mikels, Joseph A., Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A. L.

“…How health-related messages are framed can impact their effectiveness in promoting behaviors, and messages framed in terms of gains have been shown to be more…”
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Emotional category data on images from the International Affective Picture System by MIKELS, Joseph A, FREDRICKSON, Barbara L, LARKIN, Gregory R, LINDBERG, Casey M, MAGUO, Sam J, REUTER-LORENZ, Patricia A

“…The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is widely used in studies of emotion and has been characterized primarily along the dimensions of valence,…”
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The Interpretative Lenses of Older Adults Are Not Rose-Colored-Just Less Dark: Aging and the Interpretation of Ambiguous Scenarios by Mikels, Joseph A, Shuster, Michael M

“…We are all faced with ambiguous situations daily that we must interpret to make sense of the world. In such situations, do you wear rose-colored glasses and…”
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