Positive feelings facilitate working memory and complex decision making among older adults

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 184-192

  Carpenter, Stephanie M ^a,b   Peters, Ellen ^a,c   Västfjäll, Daniel ^a,d   Isen, Alice M ^e  

^a DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; Mood; Positive affect; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874343655     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.698251     Document Type: Article

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