Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 284-296

  Palgi, Yuval ^a   Shrira, Amit ^b   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^c   Spalter, Tal ^d   Kavé, Gitit ^e   Shmotkin, Dov ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distance to death; Emotional complexity; Negative affect; Old age; Positive affect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DETERIORATION; EMOTIONAL COMPLEXITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; COGNITION; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902954232     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036302     Document Type: Article

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