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Effective cue utilization reduces memory errors in older adults

Article Abstract:

A study to assess whether older adults are able to encode perceptual and contextual features and whether source memory performance in younger and older adults would improve by manipulations designed to enhance utilization of cues is presented. It is concluded that older adults suffer from a cue utilization deficit, and this contributes to the age-related susceptibility in the imagination inflation paradigm.

Context effects (Psychology), Perceptual learning

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Optimism, pessimism, and positive and negative affectivity in middle-aged adults: a test of a cognitive-affective model of psychological adjustment

Article Abstract:

Research demonstrates the influence of optimism and pessimism perception, by middle-aged adults, on the psychological adjustment and behavior. Data also indicate that cognitive processes precede changes in affect rather than the reverse.

Statistical Data Included, Research, Psychodiagnostics, Moral education, Affective education, Cognitive dissonance

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Positive affect and suicide ideation in older adult primary care patients

Article Abstract:

The relationship between positive affect and suicide ideation was studied in patients in primary care who were sixty-five years and older.

Suicidal ideation

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