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positivity effect: a standalone construct

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Gerontology

older adults' tendency to attend to and remember positive over negative information, attributed to goals shifting toward emotional well-being.

In gerontology, positivity effect refers to older adults' tendency to attend to and remember positive over negative information, attributed to goals shifting toward emotional well-being. This meaning comes from Mather (2005) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.[1]

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References

Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2005). Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(10), 496-502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2005.08.005

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