Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
by Elizabeth Kensinger, Ph.D.
LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY
Selected Books
The following books are all available at the O’Neill Library:
Bialystok, E., & Craik, F. I. M. (2006). Lifespan cognition : Mechanisms of change.
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. (O’Neill Stacks BF724.55 .C63 L54 2006)
Christianson, S. (1992). The handbook of emotion and memory : Research and theory.
Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (O’Neill Stacks BF311 .H355 1992)
Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' error : Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New
York: G.P. Putnam. (O’Neill Stacks QP401 .D2 1994)
Lewis, M., Haviland-Jones, J., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Handbook of emotions. New
York: Guilford Press. (O’Neill Stacks BF561 .H35 2008)
Reisberg, D., & Hertel, P. (2004). Memory and emotion. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press. (O’Neill Stacks BF378.A87 M46 2004)
Schacter, D. L., Gallo, D. A., & Kensinger, E. A. (2007). The cognitive neuroscience of
implicit and false memories: Perspectives on processing specificity.
In J. S. Nairne (Ed.), The foundations of remembering: Essays in honor of Henry L.
Roediger, III.(pp. 353-377). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
(O’Neill Stacks BF371 .F65 2007)
Selected Journal Articles
The following list of articles are all available from the Boston College Libraries’
collection of online journals. You will find an alphabetical list of online journals at
http://www.bc.edu/ejournals
Charles, S. T., & Piazza, J. R. (2007). Memories of social interactions: Age differences
in emotional intensity. Psychology and Aging, 22(2), 300-309.
Emery, L., & Hess, T. M. (2008). Viewing instructions impact emotional memory
differently in older and young adults. Psychology and Aging, 23(1), 2-12.
Grahn, D., Scheibe, S., & Baltes, P. B. (2007). Reduced negativity effect in older adults'
memory for emotional pictures: The heterogeneity-homogeneity list paradigm.
Psychology and Aging, 22(3), 644-649.
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Gunning-Dixon, F. M., Gur, R. C., Perkins, A. C., Schroeder, L., Turner, T., Turetsky, B.
I., et al. (2003). Aged-related differences in brain activation during emotional face
processing. Neurobiology of Aging, 24(2), 285-295.
Gunning-Dixon, F. M., Gur, R. C., Perkins, A. C., Schroeder, L., Turner, T., Turetsky, B.
I., et al. (2003). Aged-related differences in brain activation during emotional face
processing. Neurobiology of Aging, 24(2), 285-295.
Kapucu, A., Rotello, C. M., Ready, R. E., & Seidl, K. N. (2008). Response bias in
"remembering" emotional stimuli: A new perspective on age differences. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(3), 703-711.
Kennedy, Q., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2004). The role of motivation in the agerelated positivity effect in autobiographical memory. Psychological Science, 15(3), 208214.
Kennedy, Q., Mather, M., & Carstensen, L. L. (2004). The role of motivation in the agerelated positivity effect in autobiographical memory. Psychological Science, 15(3), 208214.
Kensinger, E. A. (2008). Age differences in memory for arousing and nonarousing
emotional words. Journals of Gerontology: Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social
Sciences, 63B(1), P13-P18.
Kensinger, E. A., Garoff-Eaton, R. J., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Effects of emotion on
memory specificity in young and older adults. Journals of Gerontology: Series B:
Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62B(4), P208-P215.
Kensinger, E. A., Gutchess, A. H., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Effects of aging and
encoding instructions on emotion-induced memory trade-offs. Psychology and Aging,
22(4), 781-795.
Kensinger, E. A., O'Brien, J. L., Swanberg, K., Garoff-Eaton, R. J., & Schacter, D. L.
(2007). The effects of emotional content on reality-monitoring performance in young
and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 22(4), 752-764.
Kensinger, E. A., & Schacter, D. L. (2008). Neural processes supporting young and
older adults' emotional memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1161-1173.
Murphy, N. A., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2008). Preferences for emotional information in
older and younger adults: A meta-analysis of memory and attention tasks. Psychology
and Aging, 23(2), 263-286.
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Otani, H., Libkuman, T. M., Widner, R. L., Jr., & Graves, E. I. (2007). Memory for
emotionally arousing stimuli: A comparison of younger and older adults. Journal of
General Psychology, 134(1), 23-42.
Ready, R. E., Weinberger, M. I., & Jones, K. M. (2007). How happy have you felt lately?
Two diary studies of emotion recall in older and younger adults. Cognition & Emotion,
21(4), 728-757.
Spaniol, J., Voss, A., & Grady, C. L. (2008). Aging and emotional memory: Cognitive
mechanisms underlying the positivity effect. Psychology and Aging, 23(4), 859-872.
St. Jacques, P. L., & Levine, B. (2007). Ageing and autobiographical memory for
emotional and neutral events. Memory, 15(2), 129-144.
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