Older adults have greater difficulty imagining future rather than atemporal experiences

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1089-1098

  Rendell, Peter G ^a   Bailey, Phoebe E ^b   Henry, Julie D ^c   Phillips, Louise H ^d   Gaskin, Shae ^a   Kliegel, Matthias ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Autonoetic consciousness; Episodic future thinking; Imagining; Scene construction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869786496     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029748     Document Type: Article

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