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Laura L. Carstensen

Stanford University
Verified email at stanford.edu
Cited by 68406

Taking time seriously: A theory of socioemotional selectivity.

LL Carstensen, DM Isaacowitz… - American psychologist, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
Socioemotional selectivity theory claims that the perception of time plays a fundamental role
in the selection and pursuit of social goals. According to the theory, social motives fall into 1 …

Aging and motivated cognition: The positivity effect in attention and memory

M Mather, LL Carstensen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2005 - cell.com
As people get older, they experience fewer negative emotions. Strategic processes in older
adults' emotional attention and memory might play a role in this variation with age. Older …

Social and emotional aging

ST Charles, LL Carstensen - Annual review of psychology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The past several decades have witnessed unidimensional decline models of aging give way
to life-span developmental models that consider how specific processes and strategies …

Social and emotional patterns in adulthood: support for socioemotional selectivity theory.

LL Carstensen - Psychology and aging, 1992 - psycnet.apa.org
Explored 2 hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory:(1) Selective
reductions in social interaction begin in early adulthood, and (2) emotional closeness to …

The influence of a sense of time on human development

LL Carstensen - Science, 2006 - science.org
The subjective sense of future time plays an essential role in human motivation. Gradually,
time left becomes a better predictor than chronological age for a range of cognitive …

Socioemotional selectivity theory and the regulation of emotion in the second half of life

LL Carstensen, HH Fung, ST Charles - Motivation and emotion, 2003 - Springer
Far more attention has been paid to emotion regulation in childhood than in adulthood and
old age. However, a growing body of empirical research suggests that the emotion domain …

Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span.

LL Carstensen, M Pasupathi, U Mayr… - Journal of personality …, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
Age differences in emotional experience over the adult life span were explored, focusing on
the frequency, intensity, complexity, and consistency of emotional experience in everyday …

Evidence for a life-span theory of socioemotional selectivity

LL Carstensen - Current directions in Psychological science, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
The importanc e of social involvement gots. In qe tioned ty social scientists. So I al
interaction provices the context for a broad array of basic human needs an l goals, ranging …

Emotion and aging: experience, expression, and control.

JJ Gross, LL Carstensen, M Pasupathi, J Tsai… - Psychology and …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
Age differences in emotional experience, expression, and control were investigated in 4
studies. A community sample of 127 African Americans and European Americans (ages 19 …

Time counts: future time perspective, goals, and social relationships.

FR Lang, LL Carstensen - Psychology and aging, 2002 - psycnet.apa.org
On the basis of postulates derived from socioemotional selectivity theory, the authors
explored the extent to which future time perspective (FTP) is related to social motivation, and …