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The Theory Behind the Age-Related Positivity Effect
2012
Frontiers in Psychology
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 basis articulated (Mather and Carstensen, 2005) scores of independent replications and related findings have appeared in the literature. Over the same period, a number of investigations have failed
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00339
pmid:23060825
pmcid:PMC3459016
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