Aging and Attentional Bias for Death related and General Threat-related Information: Less Avoidance in Older as Compared With Middle-Aged Adults | Zendy

Rudi De Raedt | Zendy; Ernst H. W. Koster | Zendy; R. Ryckewaert | Zendy

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Aging and Attentional Bias for Death related and General Threat-related Information: Less Avoidance in Older as Compared With Middle-Aged Adults

Author(s) -

Rudi De Raedt,

Ernst H. W. Koster,

R. Ryckewaert

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbs047

Subject(s) - psychology , attentional bias , death anxiety , anxiety , terror management theory , developmental psychology , young adult , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology

The aging literature suggests that life satisfaction and affective well being stabilizes or even increases during the aging process, and that death anxiety would decrease with aging. Experimental psychology literature shows that emotions play a critical role in information processing. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether death related versus nondeath-related threat words would lead to differential attentional processing in middle aged versus older adults.

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