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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on aging and prosocial behaviors, using context to explain the success of interventions for behavioral change, and supports for managing work and family.
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How Age Magnifies Experience: Deconstructing Cross-Cultural Differences in Aging
In exploring aging societies around the world, psychological scientists find significant variability in social relationships and family structures, individuals’ needs and expectations, and potential solutions for maintaining quality of life. Declining fertility rates and each country’s unique situational context point to the need for flexibility with regard to policy development related to aging.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on self-control and brain activity, working memory and long-term memory, and aging and how specific memories or associations are remembered.
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on language style and social networks, the cultural differences that affect the relationship between aging and well-being, and how infant and adult brains interact while they communicate.
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We need a major redesign of life
It’s time to get serious about a major redesign of life. Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century, and rather than imagine the scores of ways we could use these
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International Funding For Research on Aging, Extending Human Health
Psychological scientists across the world studying aging and later-in-life health have an exciting new opportunity for funding for their research: the Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge, organized by the US National Academy of Medicine.
