"Edited proceedings of a conference held at the Pennsylvania State University, October 4-5, 2004"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Societal influences that affect cognitive functioning in old age / Selam Negash and Ronald C. Petersen. Commentary: societal factors in cognitive aging: one eye wide shut? / Naftali Raz. Commentary: societal influences on cognition in historical context / K. Warner Schaie -- Wisdom in social context / Ursula M. Staudinger, Eva-Marie Kessler and Jessica Dörner. Commentary: the dynamic relationship between age stereotypes and wisdom in old age / Becca R. Levy and Corey Pilver -- Social influences on adult personality, self-regulation, and health / Daniel K. Mroczek ... [et al.]. Commentary: from kindling to conflagration: self-regulation and personality change / Brent W. Roberts. Commentary: can self-regulation explain age differences in daily, weekly, and monthly reports of psychological distress? / David M. Almeida, Daniel K. Mroczek, and Michelle Neiss -- Social norms, rules of thumb, and retirement: evidence for rationality in retirement planning / Gary Burtless. Commentary: modeling the retirement decision / Joseph F. Quinn. Commentary: numbers are just numbers / Ellen Peters -- Race and self-regulatory health behaviors: the role of the stress response and the HPA axis in physical and mental health disparities / James S. Jackson and Katherine M. Knight. Commentary: mechanisms of health disparities: variations in health care provider attitudes and their impact on older minority adults / Stephanie L. Garrett and Toni P. Miles. Commentary: adding paths to resilience and daily accounts to an already rich field of inquiry: a brief commentary on James Jackson's "Social structure and health disparities" / Alex J. Zautra, Kate E. Murray, and Brendt P. Parish.
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