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

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.

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