Table of Contents:
  • Committee report
  • Overview
  • The social side of human aging
  • Motivation and behavioral change
  • Socioemotional influences on decision making: the challenge of choice
  • Social engagement and cognition
  • Opportunities lost: the impact of stereotypes on self and others
  • Background papers
  • Initiatives to motivate change: a review of theory and practice and their implications for older adults / Alexander J. Rothman
  • A review of decision-making processes: weighing the risks and benefits of aging / Mara Mather
  • A social psychological perspective on the stigmatization of older adults / Jennifer A. Richeson, J. Nicole Shelton
  • Measuring psychological mechanisms / Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology
  • Measurement: Aging and the Psychology of Self-Report / Norbert Schwarz
  • Optimizing brief assessments in research on the psychology of aging: a pragmatic approach to self-report measurement / Jon A. Krosnick, Allyson L. Holbrook, Penny S. Visser
  • Utility of brain imaging methods in research on aging / Christine R. Hartel, Randy L. Buckner
  • Research infrastructure / Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology.