The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog

Oxford Library of Psychology

Presents a strong and broad overview of the field of aging and emotion, social cognition, and problem solving
First volume to thoroughly discuss this growing area in over a decade
Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog

Description

Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and aging has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical findings emerging. This trend is consistent with the broader movement in psychology to consider social, motivational, and emotional influences on cognition and behavior.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood provides the first overview of a new field of adult development that has emerged out of conceptualizations and research at the intersections between socioemotional development, social cognition, emotion, coping, and everyday problem solving. This field roundly rejects a universal deficit model of aging, highlighting instead the dynamic nature of socio-emotional development and the differentiation of individual trajectories of development as a function of variation in contextual and experiential influences. It emphasizes the need for a cross-level examination (from biology and neuroscience to cognitive and social psychology) of the determinants of emotional and socio-emotional behavior. This volume also serves as a tribute to the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields, whose thinking and empirical research contributed extensively to a life-span developmental view of emotion, problem solving, and social cognition. Its chapters cover multiple aspects of adulthood and aging, presenting developmental perspectives on emotion; antecedents and consequences of emotion in context; everyday problem solving; social cognition; goals and goal-related behaviors; and wisdom. The landmark volume in this new field, The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood is an important resource for cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists, as well as researchers and graduate students in the field of aging, emotion studies, and social psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog

Oxford Library of Psychology

1. Introduction
Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog
Part One: Emotion during Adulthood
2. Older Adults' Perception of Social and Emotional Cues
Louise H. Phillips, Gillian Slessor, Phoebe E. Bailey, and Julie D. Henry
3. The Effects of Age on Memory for Socio-Emotional Material: An Affective Neuroscience Perspective
Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Eric R. Allard, and Anne C. Krendl
4. Age Changes in Facial Morphology, Emotional Communication, and Age Stereotyping
Mary Lee Hummert
5. Do Everyday Affective Experiences Differ Throughout Adulthood? A Review of Ambulatory-Assessment Evidence
Michaela Riediger and Antje Rauers
Part Two: Emotion in Context: Antecedents and Consequences
6. The Dynamics of Cognitive-Emotional Integration: Complexity and Hedonics in Emotional Development
Gisela Labouvie-Vief, Anne-Laure Gilet, and Nathalie Mell
7. Putting Emotional Aging in Context: Contextual Influences on Age-Related Changes in Emotion Regulation and Recognition
Jennifer Tehan Stanley and Derek M. Isaacowitz
8. Positive Emotions and Health in Adulthood and Later Life
Catherine Riffin, Anthony D. Ong, and C. S. Bergeman
9. Boundary Conditions for Emotional Well-being in Aging: The Importance of Daily Stress
Martin J. Sliwinski and Stacey B. Scott
10. Tasks, Capacities, and Tactics: A Skill-based Conceptualization of Emotion Regulation across the Lifespan
Nathan S. Consedine and Iris Mauss
11. Reconciling Cognitive Decline and Increased Well-being with Age: The Role of Increased Emotion Regulation Efficiency
Erin Senesac and Susanne Scheibe
Part Three: Everyday Problem Solving
12. Contextual Variation in Adults' Emotion Regulation During Everyday Problem Solving
Michelle A. Skinner, Cynthia A. Berg, and Bert N. Uchino
13. Goals and Strategies for Solving Interpersonal Everyday Problems across the Life Span
JoNell Strough and Emily J. Keener
14. Goals, Strategies, and Well-Being across Adulthood: Integrating Perspectives from the Coping and Everyday Problem-Solving Literatures
Abby Heckman Coats, Christiane Hoppmann, and Stacey B. Scott
Part Four: Social Cognition and Goals

15. My Heart Will Go On: Aging and Autonomic Nervous System Responding in Emotion
Michelle N. Shiota and Samantha L. Neufeld
16. Aging Influences on Judgment and Decision Processes: Interactions between Ability and Experience
Thomas M. Hess and Tara L. Queen

17. Wisdom and Emotions
Monika Ardelt and Michel Ferrari
18. Values across Adulthood: A Neglected Developmental Construct Guiding Thought and
Action over Time
Johannes O. Ritter and Alexandra M. Freund
19. Causal Attributions across the Adult Lifespan
Michelle Horhota, Andrew Mienaltowski, and Yiwei Chen
20. Stereotype threat in older adults: When and why does it occur and who is most affected?
Sarah J. Barber and Mara Mather

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen, Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Christopher K. Hertzog, Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Paul Verhaeghen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is interested in working memory, attention, executive control, creativity, aging, and the interfaces between them. Christopher K. Hertzog, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. He specializes in adult development and aging, with an emphasis on understanding individual differences in cognitive changes in old age and variables that can help predict and explain successful cognitive aging, including health, lifestyle, and adaptive self-regulation.

Contributors:

Eric R. Allard
Department of Psychology
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Monika Ardelt
Department of Sociology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Phoebe E. Bailey
School of Psychology
University of Western Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Sarah J. Barber
Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Cynthia A. Berg
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Cindy S. Bergeman
Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

Yiwei Chen
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

Abby Heckman Coats
Westminster College
Salt Lake City, UT

Nathan S. Consedine
Department of Psychological Medicine
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand

Michel Ferrari
Centre for Applied Cognitive Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alexandra M. Freund
Dept. of Psychology
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Anne-Laure Gilet
Laboratoire LPPL
Université de Nantes
Nantes, France

Julie D. Henry
School of Psychology
University of Queensland
St. Lucia, Australia

Christopher Hertzog
School of Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Thomas M. Hess
Department of Psychology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Christiane Hoppmann
Department of Psychology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michelle Horhota
Department of Psychology
Furman University
Greenville, SC

Mary Lee Hummert
Department of Communication Studies
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS

Derek M. Isaacowitz
Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Emily J. Keener
Department of Psychology
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA

Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Department of Psychology
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

Anne C. Krendl
Department of Psychology
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
Medford, MA

Gisela Labouvie-Vief
Department of Psychology
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Mara Mather
Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Iris Mauss
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Nathalie Mella
Department of Psychology
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland

Andrew Mienaltowski
Department of Psychology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

Samantha L. Neufeld
Global Institute of Sustainability
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Anthony D. Ong
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Louise H. Phillips
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland

Tara L. Queen
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Antje Rauers
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Berlin, Germany

Michaela Riediger
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Berlin, Germany

Catherine Riffin
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Johannes O. Ritter
Dept. of Psychology
University of Erfurt
Erfurt, Germany

Susanne Scheibe
Department of Psychology
University of Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands

Stacey B. Scott
Center for Healthy Aging
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Erin Senesac
School of Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Michelle N. Shiota
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Michelle A. Skinner
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Gillian Slessor
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland

Martin J. Sliwinski
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Jennifer Tehan Stanley
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
Department of Adult Development and Aging
The University of Akron
Akron, OH

JoNell Strough
Department of Psychology
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Bert N. Uchino
Department of Psychology
University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Paul Verhaeghen
School of Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
atlanta, GA

The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood

Edited by Paul Verhaeghen and Christopher K. Hertzog

Oxford Library of Psychology

Reviews and Awards

"Forty-six professors at various universities as well as experts in related fields. . . wrote the 20 chapters of this very insightful book." - Sonu Chandiram, Bizindia.net