Emotional Expressivity in Older and Younger Adults' Descriptions of Personal Memories.
Background/Study Context: According to the socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; Mather & Carstensen, 2003, Psychological Sciences, 14, 409–415), aging is associated with greater motivation to regulate emotions. The authors propose that the language people use to describe personal memories provide...
| Publicado en: | Experimental Aging Research Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 345 - 370 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2012
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