Aging and Decision Making

Empirical and Applied Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvThomas M. Hess,JoNell Strough,Corinna L�ckenhoff

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Decisions large and small play a fundamental role in shaping life course trajectories of health and well-being: decisions draw upon an individual's capacity for self-regulation and self-control, their ability to keep long-term goals in mind, and their willingness to place appropriate value on their future well-being. Aging and Decision Making addresses the specific cognitive and affective processes that account for age-related changes in decision making, targeting interventions to compensate for vulnerabilities and leverage strengths in the aging individual.

This book focuses on four dominant approaches that characterize the current state of decision-making science and aging - neuroscience, behavioral mechanisms, competence models, and applied perspectives. Underscoring that choice is a ubiquitous component of everyday functioning, Aging and Decision Making examines the implications of how we invest our limited social, temporal, psychological, financial, and physical resources, and lays essential groundwork for the design of decision supportive interventions for adaptive aging that take into account individual capacities and context variables.

Divided into four dominant approaches that characterize the current state of decision-making science and aging neuroscience
Explores the impact of aging on the linkages between cortical structures/functions and the behavioral indices of decision-making
Examines the themes associated with behavioral approaches that attempt integrations of methods, models, and theories of general decision-making with those derived from the study of aging
Details the changes in underlying competencies in later life and the two prevailing themes that have emerged-one, the general individual differences perspective, and two, a more clinical focus

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-02-23
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor432
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780124171480

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Thomas M. Hess, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at North Carolina State University who studies aging and cognitive functioning. His research on aging, judgment, and decision processes has been funded by NIH. He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Gerontological Society of America. JoNell Strough, Ph.D., is a life-span developmental psychologist and professor at West Virginia University. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a member of the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging and other scientific associations, and has received research funding from the National Institute on Aging. Corinna E. Löckenhoff, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of human development at Cornell University and studies emotions, social relations, and decision making from a life-span perspective. Her work is supported by the National Institute on Aging and she has been named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.

Chapter 1 – The Present, Past, and Future of Research on Aging and Decision MakingJoNell Strough, Corinna E. Löckenhoff, Thomas M. HessSection 1: Neurobiological MechanismsChapter 2 – Modeling Cost-Benefit Decision Making in Aged RodentsB. Sofia Beas, Barry Setlow, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Jennifer L. BizonChapter 3 – Decision Neuroscience and AgingGregory R. Samanez-LarkinChapter 4 – Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Age-Related Changes in Learning and Decision Making: A Neuro-Computational ApproachBen Eppinger, Rasmus BrucknerChapter 5 – Age-Associated Executive Dysfunction, the Prefrontal Cortex, and Complex Decision MakingNatalie L. Denburg, William M. HedgcockSection 2: Behavioral MechanismsChapter 6 – Adaptive Decision Making and AgingRui Mata, Anika K. Josef, Patrick LemaireChapter 7 - Aging, Memory, and Decision MakingFabio Del Missier, Timo Mäntylä, Lars-Göran NilssonChapter 8 – Complementary Contributions of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence to Decision Making Across the Life SpanLisa Zaval, Ye Li, Eric J. Johnson, Elke U. WeberChapter 9 – Aging, Emotion, and Decision MakingJoseph A. Mikels, Michael M. Shuster, Sydney T. ThaiChapter 10 – A Prospect Theory-Based Evaluation of Dual-Process Influences on Aging and Decision Making: Support for a Contextual PerspectiveThomas M. HessChapter 11 – Age Differences in Time Perception and Their Implications for Decision Making Across the Life SpanCorinna E. Löckenhoff, Joshua L. RuttChapter 12 – Understanding Life-Span Developmental Changes in Decision-Making CompetenceJoNell Strough, Andrew M. Parker, Wändi Bruine de BruinSection 3: Applied PerspectivesChapter 13 – Decision Making and Health Literacy among Older AdultsDaniel Morrow, Jessie ChinChapter 14 – Decisions and Actions for Life Patterns and Health Practices as We Age: A Bottom-up ApproachHoward Leventhal, Jenna Herold, Elaine A. Leventhal, Edith Burns, Michael A. DiefenbachChapter 15 – Choice and Aging: Less is MorePi-Ju Liu, Stacey Wood, Yaniv HanochChapter 16 – Financial Decision Making across the Adult Life Span: Dynamic Cognitive Capacities and Real-World CompetenceDouglas A. Hershey, James T. Austin, Helen C. GutierrezChapter 17 – Aging and Consume Decision MakingStephanie M. Carpenter, Carolyn YoonChapter 18 – A Framework for Decision Making in Couples across AdulthoodTara L. Queen, Cynthia A. Berg, William Lowrance