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Current Directions in Adulthood and Aging

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Susan T. Charles, University of California, Irvine

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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN ADULTHOOD AND AGING, an American Psychological Society Reader, edited by Susan Turk Charles, University of California, Irvine.

This new and exciting reader includes over 25 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessible Current Directions in Psychological Science journal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective–from a reliable source–about today’s most current and pressing issues in adulthood and aging.

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Salthouse: What and when of cognitive aging 2004
Li: Connecting the many levels and facets of cognitive aging 2002
Jacoby & Rhodes: False remembering in the aged 2006
Burke & Shafto: Aging and language production 2004
Madden: Aging and visual attention 2007
Kramer & Willis: Enhancing the cognitive vitality of older adults 2002
Wilson & Bennett: Cognitive activity and risk of Alzheimer’s disease 2003

Section 2: COGNITION IN CONTEXT

Marriott and Wenk: Neurobiological consequences of long-term estrogen therapy 2004
Wingfield, Tun and McCoy: Hearing loss in older adulthood. What it is and how it interacts with cognitive performance 2005
Fisk and Rogers: Psychology and aging: enhancing the lives of an aging population 2002
Park and Gutchess: The cognitive neuroscience of aging and culture 2006

Section 3: EMOTION AND COGNITION

Blanchard-Fields: Everyday problem solving and emotion: an adult developmental perspective 2007
Carstensen and Mikels: At the intersection of emotion and cognition. Aging and the positive effect 2005
Labouvie-Vief: Dynamic integration: affect, cognition, and the self in adulthood 2003
Isaacowitz: Motivated Gaze. The view from the gazer 2006

Section 4: PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS OF AGING

Lawton: Emotion in later life 2001
Mroczek: Age and emotion in adulthood 2001
Lucas: Adaptation and the set-point model of subjective well-being: does happiness change after major life events? 2007
Robins and Trzesniewski: Self-esteem development across the lifespan 2005
Lachman: Perceived control over aging-related declines: adaptive beliefs and behaviors 2006
Wrosch, Schulz and Heckhausen: Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: a control-process approach 2004

Section 5: PHYSICAL HEALTH

Gatz: Genetics, dementia and the elderly 2007
Newland and Rasmussen: Behavior in adulthood and during aging is affected by contaminant exposure in utero 2003
Gottfredson and Deary: Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why? 2004
Almeida: Resilience and vulnerability to daily stressors assessed via diary methods 2005
Vitaliano, Young and Zhang: Is caregiving a risk factor for illness? 2004

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Susan Turk Charles, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. She received her doctorate from the University of Southern California and completed her clinical internship at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Her research focuses on life-span trajectories of emotional experience, and the associations between physical health and emotional well-being. She currently serves on the SPIP NIH grant review panel and is a member of the executive board of Division 20 of the American Psychological Association. She also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences , Psychology and Aging , and Emotion . She has authored paper over 25 journal articles and book chapters.