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Why Should We Look Forward To Getting Older?
NPR: Psychologist Laura Carstensen says that as people get older, they usually become less stressed and more content. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the
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Different cognitive skills peak at different times over our lifespans, research finds
MinnPost: Here’s some promising news for anybody who’s aging (and that, of course, is all of us): A recent series of crowd-sourced experiments suggest that different aspects of fluid intelligence — our ability to think
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Psychological Scientists Address the Challenges of an Aging Workforce
Older adults are a growing proportion of the American workforce in unprecedented numbers. For the first time since 1948, American employees over age 65 outnumber teenage workers, according to a report from AARP. Yet, older
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As We Age, Keys to Remembering Where the Keys Are
The New York Times: I recently told my 70s-something walking group that I wanted to write about “retrieval disorder,” our shared problem with remembering names and dates, what we had just read and where, even
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Call for Papers: The Society for the Study of Human Development
Society for the Study of Human Development 9th Biennial Meeting Hilton Garden Inn Hotel Austin, Texas October 16–18, 2015 Person, Biology, Culture, and Society: New Directions in Human Development The Society for the Study of
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This is your brain on fencing: How certain sports may aid the aging brain
The Washington Post: The two fencers pull on their mesh-front masks and face each other behind two “en garde” lines. At their coach’s signal, they raise their sabres and the practice bout begins in a
