Publications

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2024

  • Isaacowitz, D. M., & English, T. (2024). Beyond strategies: The when and why of emotion regulation in aging. In Current Opinion in Psychology (Vol. 56). Elsevier B.V. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101763
  • Santistevan, A. C., Moadab, G., Fiske, O., Nord, C. M., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Bliss-Moreau, E.(2024). Cardiac psychophysiological tuning to socioaffective content is disrupted in aged rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Psychophysiology, 61, e14410. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14410
  • Santistevan, A. C., Fiske, O., Moadab, G., Charbonneau, J. A., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Bliss-Moreau, E. (2024). See no evil: Attentional bias toward threat is diminished in aged monkeys. Emotion, 24(2), 303–315. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001276
  • Isaacowitz, D. M., & Wolfe, H. E. (in press). Emotion regulation tactics: A key to understanding age (and other between- and within-person) differences in emotion regulation preference and effectiveness. Emotion Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241259567
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Wolfe, H. (in press). Open science, replication, & reproducibility in psychological aging research: The case of emotion research. To appear in APA Handbook of Adult Development and Aging.
  • Jones, J., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Ayduk, O. (in press). Conceal and don’t feel as much?
    Experiential effects of expressive suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

2023

  • DiGirolamo, M. A., Kibrislioglu Uysal, N., McCall, E. C., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2023). Attention-focused emotion regulation in everyday life in adulthood and old age. Emotion, 23(3), 633–650. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001158
  • DiGirolamo, M. A., McCall, E. C., Kibrislioglu Uysal, N., Ho, Y. W., Lind, M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2023). Attention to emotional stimuli across adulthood and older age: A novel application of eye-tracking within the home. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(5), 1439–1453. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001343
  • DiGirolamo, M. A., Neupert, S. D., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2023). Emotion Regulation Convoys: Individual and Age Differences in the Hierarchical Configuration of Emotion Regulation Behaviors in Everyday Life. Affective Science, 4(4), 630–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00228-8
  • Isaacowitz, D. M. (2023). Publishing Findings That Speak Against Dominant Theories Is Challenging Yet Important for the Study of Psychological Aging: Introduction to Special Section. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78(7), 1119–1121. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad060
  • Isaacowitz, D. M. (2023). What’s Next for Psychological Aging Research? The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 78(12), 1965–1966. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad127
  • Whitmoyer, P., Fisher, M. E., Duraney, E. J., Manzler, C., Isaacowitz, D. M., Andridge, R., & Prakash, R. S. (2023). Age differences in emotion regulation strategy use and flexibility in daily life. Aging & mental health, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2256245
  • Wolfe, H., & Isaacowitz, D. (2023). Aging and Emotion Regulation Tactics Across the Historical Events of 2020. Gerontologist, 63(5), 933–944. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac106

2022

2021

  • Freund, A.M., Hennecke, M……Isaacowitz, D.M…..Zacher. H., & Zadeh. R. (2021). Motivation and healthy aging: A heuristic model. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76, S97-S104. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab128
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Freund, A.M., Mayr, U., Rothermund, R., & Tobler, P. (2021). Age-related changes in the role of social motivation: Implications for healthy aging. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76, S115-S124. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab032
  • Livingstone, K.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2021). Age and emotion regulation in daily life: Frequencies, strategies, tactics and effectiveness. Emotion, 21, 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000672
  • Martire, L.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2021). What can we learn about psychological aging by studying Covid-19? Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76, e1-e3. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa217
  • Ossenfort, K.L., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2021). Spatial attention to arousing emotional stimuli in younger and older adults. Motivation and Emotion, 790-797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09899-x
  • Ossenfort, K.L., Sands, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2021). Anticipatory emotion regulation of a highly arousing stressor in adulthood and old age. Aging and Mental Health, 25(8), 1542-1553. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1753013
  • Wolfe, H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2021). Motivational processes in emotional aging. In G. Sedek, T. Hess, & D. Touron (Eds). Multiple pathways of cognitive aging: Motivational and contextual influences. Oxford University Press.
  • Yeung, D.Y., Isaacowitz, D.M., Lam, W.W.Y., Ye. J., & Leung, C.L.K. (2021). Age differences in visual attention and responses to intergenerational and nonintergenerational workplace conflict. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2090. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.604717

2020

  • Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Sarafoglou, A., Kekecs, Z., Kucharský, Š., Benjamin, D., . . .Isaacowitz, D., . . . & Wagenmakers, E.J. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2020). Doing more with null age effects: Introduction to the special section. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 75, 42-44. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz123
  • Livingstone, K.M., Castro, V.L., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2020). Age differences in beliefs about emotion regulation strategies. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 75, 316-326. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby022
  • Schlegel, K., Vicaria, I. M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2020). Facets of interpersonal accuracy across the lifespan: Is there a single skill in older age? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 44, 253-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-019-00326-x
  • Schwartz, B., Richerson, P.J., Berkman, B.E., Frankenreiter, J., Hagmann, D., Isaacowitz, D.M., Pachur, T., Schooler, L.J., & Wehling, P. (2020). The deep structure of deliberate ignorance: Mapping the terrain. In: Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know, edited by R. Hertwig and C. Engel. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 29 (p. 65-88), J. R. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2019

  • Allard, E. S., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2019). The influence of motivational priority on younger and older adults’ positive gaze preferences. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26, 882-903.
  • Castro, V.L. & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2019). Aging and the social ecology of everyday interpersonal perception: What is perceived, in whom, and where? Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74, 988-998. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx159
  • Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2019). The same with age: Evidence for age-related similarities in interpersonal accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1517-1537. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000540
  • Fung, H.H., Gong, X., Ngo, N., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2019). Cultural differences in the age-related positivity effect: Distinguishing between preference and effectiveness. Emotion, 19, 1414-1424. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000529
  • Fung, H. H., Lu, M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2019). Aging and attention: Meaningfulness may be more important than valence. Psychology and Aging, 34, 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000304
  • Gurera, J. W., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2019). Emotion regulation and emotion perception in aging: A perspective on age-related differences and similarities. In N. Srinivasan (Ed.) Progress in Brain Research: Volume 247, Emotion and Cognition (pp. 329-351). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.02.007
  • Isaacowitz, D. M., & Lind, M. (2019). Open science is for aging research, too. Innovation in Aging, 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz028
  • Livingstone, K. M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2019). Age similarities and differences in spontaneous use of emotion regulation tactics across five laboratory tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1972-1992. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000556
  • Ossenfort, K.L., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2019). Positive and detached reappraisal in older adulthood: A temporal examination of gaze patterns. Aging and Mental Health, 23, 1661-1665. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1506752
  • Xing, C., Meng, Y., Isaacowitz, D. M., Song, Y., & Cai, J. (2019). Motivated to gain: Awareness of an impending ending and the ending effect. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02717
  • Xing, C., Meng, Y., Isaacowitz, D. M., Wen, Y., & Lin, Z. (2019). The ending effect in investment decisions: the motivational need for an emotionally rewarding ending. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(4), 510-527. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218788829

2018

  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2018). Planning for the future of psychological research on aging. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 73, 361-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx142
  • Isaacowitz, D. M., Livingstone, K. M., Richard, M., & Seif El-Nasr, M. (2018). Aging and attention to self-selected emotional content: A novel application of mobile eye tracking to the study of emotion regulation in adulthood and aging. Psychology and Aging, 33, 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000231
  • Livingstone, K. M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2018). The roles of age and attention in general emotion regulation, reappraisal, and expressive suppression. Psychology and Aging, 33, 373-383. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000240
  • Lohani, M., Payne, B.R., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2018). Emotional coherence in early and later adulthood during sadness reactivity and regulation. Emotion, 18, 789-804. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000345
  • Murry, M.W.E., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2018). Age similarities in interpersonal perception and conversation ability. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42, 101-111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-017-0265-0
  • Ossenfort, K.L, & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2018). Video games and emotion regulation: Aging and selection of interactive stimuli. GeroPsych, 31, 205-213. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000196
  • Purcell, J., Lohani, M., Musket, C., Hay, A. C., Isaacowitz, D. M. & Gruber, J. (2018). Lack of emotional gaze preferences using eye-tracking in bipolar disorder. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 16, 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-018-0123-y
  • Sands, M., Livingstone, K. M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2018). Characterizing age-related positivity effects in situation selection. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 42, 396-404. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025417723086
  • Sen, A., Isaacowitz, D., & Schirmer, A. (2018). Age differences in vocal emotion perception: On the role of speaker age and listener sex. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 1189-1204. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1393399 

2017

  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Livingstone, K.M., & Castro, V.L. (2017). Aging and emotions: Experience, regulation and perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 79-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.013
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. & Ossenfort, K.L. (2017). Aging, attention and situation selection: Older adults create mixed emotional environments. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 15, 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.05.004
  • Kunzmann, U., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2017). Emotional aging: Taking the immediate context seriously. Research in Human Development, 14, 182-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2017.1340048
  • Murry, M.W.E, & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2017). Aging and emotion perception: The role of the social environment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 597-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025416667493
  • Namaky, N., Beltzer, M. L., Werntz, A. J., Lambert, A. E., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Teachman, B. A. (2017). Moderators of age effects on attention bias toward threat and its association with anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 216, 46–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.10.048
  • Nguyen, T.H.-D., Seif El-Nasr, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2017). Interactive visualization for understanding of attention patterns. In M. Burch, L. Chuang, B. Fischer, A. Schmidt & D. Weiskopf (Eds.), Eye tracking and visualization: Foundations, techniques and applications. ETVIS 2015 (pp. 23-39). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47024-5_2
  • Sands, M., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2017). Situation selection across adulthood: The role of arousal. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 791-798. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1152954
  • Schlegel, K., Vicaria, I.M., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Hall, J.A. (2017). Effectiveness of a short audiovisual emotion recognition training program in adults. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 646–660. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9631-9
  • Wirth, M., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Visual attention and emotional reactions to negative stimuli: The role of age and cognitive reappraisal. Psychology and Aging, 32, 543-556. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000188

2016

  • Cannon, M.S., Ngo, N., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2016). The interplay of motivation and emotion: The view from adulthood and old age. In L.F. Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. Haviland-Jones (Eds.) Handbook of Emotions (4th edition, pp. 336-349). New York: The Guilford Press.
  • Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2016). The role of time and time perspective in age-related processes: Introduction to the special issue. Psychology and Aging, 31, 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000119
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Freund, A.M. (2016). Comment: Emotion, goals and distance: The view from the study of adult development and aging. Emotion Review, 8, 132-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073915586228
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Vicaria, I.M., & Murry, M.W.E. (2016). A lifespan developmental perspective on interpersonal accuracy. To appear in J.A. Hall, M. Schmid Mast & T.V. West (Eds.), The social psychology of perceiving others accurately (pp. 206-229). Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316181959.010
  • Livingstone, K.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2016). Age differences in use and effectiveness of positivity in emotion regulation: The sample case of attention. In A. Ong & C. Loeckenhoff (Eds.). Emotion, Aging and Health (pp. 31-48). Washington, DC: APA. https://doi.org/10.1037/14857-003
  • Murry, M.W.E., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2016). Emotions and aging. The Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118521373.wbeaa212
  • Ngo, N., Sands, M., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2016). Emotion-cognition links in aging: Theory and evidence. In V. Bengtson & R. Settersten (Eds.). Handbook of theories of aging (3rd edition, pp. 213-234). New York: Springer.
  • Sands, M., Garbacz, A., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2016). Just change the channel? Studying effects of age on emotion regulation using a TV watching paradigm. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 788-795. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616660593
  • Vicaria, I.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2016). Age-related changes in motivation: Do they influence emotional experience across adulthood and old age? In T.S. Braver (Ed.), Motivation and Cognitive control (pp. 361-380). New York: Psychology Press.

2015

  • Fung, H.H., Li, T., Zhang. X., Sit, I.M.I., Cheng, S.T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Too positive to be true: Exposure to positive portrayals of old age does not always have positive consequences. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 70, 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu061
  • Harris, J.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Emotion in cognition. In J. Wright (Editor), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition, Vol 7, pp. 461-466). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.25003-4
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Livingstone, K.M. (2015). Emotion in adulthood: What changes and why? In N.R. Branscombe and K. Reynolds (Eds.), Psychology of Change (pp. 116-132). New York: Psychology Press.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Livingstone, K.M, Harris, J.A., & Marcotte, S.L. (2015). Mobile eye tracking reveals little evidence for age differences in attentional selection for mood regulation. Emotion, 15, 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000037
  • Li, T., Fung, H.H., Isaacowitz, D.M., Lang, F.R. (2015). Attention to negative emotion is related to longitudinal social network change: The moderating effect of interdependent self-construal. Geriatrics & Gerontology International, 15, 1079-1086. https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.12401
  • Livingstone, K.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Positive emotion processing: Theoretical perspectives. In N. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_49-1
  • Livingstone, K.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Situation selection and modification for emotion regulation in younger and older adults. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 904-910. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615593148
  • Ngo, N., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Use of context in emotion perception: The role of top-down control, cue type, and perceiver’s age. Emotion, 15, 292-302. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000062
  • Noh, S.R., & Isaacowitz. D.M. (2015). The effects of varying contextual demands on age-related positive gaze preferences. Psychology and Aging, 30, 356-368. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039233
  • Stanley, J. T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Caring more and knowing more reduces ages-related differences in emotion perception. Psychology and Aging, 30, 383-395. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000028
  • Vicaria, I.M., Bernieri, F.J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2015). Perceptions of rapport across the life span: Gaze patterns and judgment accuracy. Psychology and Aging, 30, 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000019

2014

  • Braver, T. S., Krug, M. K., Chiew, K. S., Kool, W., Westbrook, J. A., Clement, N. J., Adcock, R. A., Barch, D. M., Botvinick, M. M., Carver, C. S., Cools, R., Custers, R., Dickinson, A. R., Dweck, C. S., Fishbach, A., Gollwitzer, P. M., Hess, T. M., Isaacowitz, D. M., Mather, M., Murayama, K., Pessoa, L., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Somerville, L. H. (2014). Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, 443-472. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0300-0
  • Freund, A.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2014). Aging and social perception: So far, more similarities than differences. Psychology and Aging, 29,  451-453. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037555
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2014). Aging: Commentary: Change in perceptions of personality disorder in late life: The view from socioemotional aging. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 166-171. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2014.28.1.166
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Harris, J.A. (2014). Middle-aged adults facing skin cancer: Fixation, mood, and behavior. Psychology and Aging, 29,  342-350. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036399
  • Lohani, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2014). Age differences in managing response to sadness elicitors using attentional deployment, positive reappraisal, and suppression. Cognition and Emotion, 28, 678-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.853648
  • Lohani, M., Larcom, M. J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2014). Older and happier? Age-related effects on positive emotion. In Gruber, J. & Moskowitz, J. (Eds.). Positive Emotion: Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides (pp. 246-266). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926725.003.0014
  • Stanley, J. T. & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2014). Putting emotional aging in context: Contextual influences on age-related changes in emotion regulation and recognition. In P. Verhaeghen and C. Hertzog (Eds.), Emotion, Social Cognition, and Everyday Problem Solving During Adulthood (pp. 99-114). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199899463.013.006
  • Stanley, J.T., Lohani, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2014). Age-related differences in judgments of inappropriate behavior are related to humor style preferences. Psychology and Aging, 29, 528-541. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036666
  • Zhang, X., Fung, H.H., Stanley, J.T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Zhang, Q. (2014). Thinking more holistically as we grow older? Results from different tasks in two cultures. Culture and Brain, 2, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-014-0018-4

2013

  • Freund, A.M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2013). Beyond age comparisons: A plea for the use of a modified Brunswikian approach to experimental designs in the study of adult development and aging. Human Development, 56, 351-371. https://doi.org/10.1159/000357177
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Gershon, A., Allard, E.S., & Johnson, S.L. (2013). Emotion in aging and bipolar disorder: Similarities, differences, and lessons for future research.  Emotion Review, 5, 312-320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073912472244
  • Noh, S. R., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2018). Emotional faces in context: Age differences in recognition accuracy and scanning patterns. Emotion, 13, 238-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030234
  • Rovenpor, D., Skosgberg, N. & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2013). The choices we make: An examination of situation selection in younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 28, 365-376. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030450
  • Stanley, J.T., Zhang, X., Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2013). Cultural differences in gaze and emotion recognition: Americans contrast more than Chinese. Emotion, 13, 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029209
  • Zhang, X., Fung, H.H., Stanley, J.T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Ho, M.Y. (2013). Perspective taking in older age revisited: A motivational perspective. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1848-1858. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031211

2012

  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2012). Mood regulation in real time: Age differences in the role of looking. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21,  237-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721412448651
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (2012). Linking process and outcome in the study of emotion and aging. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611424750
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Choi, Y. (2012). Looking, feeling, and doing: Are there age differences in attention, mood and behavioral responses to skin cancer information? Health Psychology, 31, 650-659. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026666
  • Noh, S.R., Larcom, M.J., Liu, X., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2012). The role of affect in attentional functioning for younger and older adults. Frontiers in Emotion Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00311
  • Stanley, J.T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2012). Socioemotional perspectives on adult development. In S.K Whitbourne & M. Sliwinski (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Psychology: Adult Development and Aging (pp. 236-253). New York: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118392966.ch12

2011

  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Choi, Y. (2011). The malleability of age-related positive gaze preferences: Training to change gaze and mood. Emotion, 11, 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021551
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Noh, S.R. (2011). Does looking at the positive mean feeling good? Age and individual differences matter. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 505-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00374.x
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Riediger, M. (2011). When Age Matters: Developmental Perspectives on “cognition and emotion.” Cognition and Emotion, 25,  957-967. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.561575
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Stanley, J.T. (2011). Bringing an ecological perspective to the study of aging and recognition of emotional facial expressions: Past, current, and future methods. Invited target article, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 35, 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-011-0113-6
  • Noh, S.R., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2011). Age differences in the emotional modulation of attention: Effects of own-age versus other-age emotional face cues on the alerting and orienting networks. The Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 709-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.570255
  • Noh, S.R., Lohani, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2011). Deliberate real-time mood regulation in adulthood: The importance of age, fixation and attentional functioning. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 998-1013. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2010.541668
  • Stanley, J.T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2011). Age-related differences in profiles of mood-change trajectories. Developmental Psychology, 47, 318-330. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021023
  • Wadlinger, H.A. & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2011). Fixing our focus: Training attention to regulate emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 75-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310365565
  • Xing, C., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2011). Age differences in attention toward decision-relevant information: Education matters. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 73, 299-312. https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.73.4.b

1999-2010

  • Piquado, T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Wingfield, A. (2010). Pupillometry as a measure of cognitive effort in younger and older adults.  Psychophysiology, 47,  560-569. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00947.x
  • Pearman, A., Andreoletti, C., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2010). Sadness prediction and response: Effects of age and agreeableness. Aging and Mental Health, 14, 355-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860903292586
  • Murphy, N.A., Lehrfeld, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2010). Recognition of posed and spontaneous dynamic smiles in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 25, 811-821. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019888
  • Murphy, N.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2010). Age effects and gaze patterns in recognizing emotional expressions: An in-depth look at gaze measures and covariates. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 436-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930802664623
  • Li, T., Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2010). The role of dispositional reappraisal in the age-related positivity effect. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 66B, 56–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbq074
  • Isaacowitz. D.M., & Fung, H.L. (2010). Motivation across time and place: What gaze can tell us about aging and culture. E. Balcetis & G.D. Lassiter (Eds.), Social Psychology of Sight (pp. 27-49). New York: Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333176.003.0008
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Murphy, N.A. (2010). Aging eyes facing an emotional world: The role of motivated gaze. In R. B. Adams, N. Ambady, K. Nakayama, & S. Shimojo (Eds.), The Science of Social Vision (pp. 133-150). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333176.003.0008
  • Fung, H.H., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Lu, A.Y., Li, T. (2010). Interdependent self-construal moderates age-related negativity reduction effects in memory and visual attention.  Psychology and Aging, 25,  321-329. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019079
  • Allard, E.S., Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2010). Positive gaze preferences in older adults: Assessing the role of cognitive effort with pupil dilation. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 17,  296-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825580903265681
  • You, J., Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2009). Age differences in dispositional optimism: A cross-cultural study. European Journal of Aging, 6, 247-252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-009-0130-z
  • Nguyen, H.T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Rubin, P.A.D. (2009). Age- and fatigue-related markers of human faces: An eye tracking study.  Ophthalmology, 115, 355-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.10.007
  • Larcom, M.J. & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2009). Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: Age and individual differences. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 64B, 733-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp077
  • Isaacowitz. D.M., Toner, K., & Neupert, S.D. (2009). Use of gaze for real-time mood regulation: Effects of age and attentional functioning. Psychology and Aging, 24, 989-994. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017706
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Allard, E., Murphy, N.A., & Schlangel, M. (2009). The time course of age-related preferences towards positive and negative stimuli. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 64B, 188-192. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbn036
  • Ersner-Hershfield, H., Carvel, D.S., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2009). Feeling happy and sad, but only seeing the positive: Poignancy and the positivity effect in attention. Motivation and Emotion, 33, 333-342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-009-9140-6
  • Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2008). Looking happy: The experimental manipulation of a positive visual attention bias. Emotion, 8, 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.121
  • Murphy, N.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2008). Preferences for emotional information in older adults: A meta-analysis of memory and attention studies. Psychology and Aging, 23, 263-286. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.263
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Toner, K., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. (2008). Looking while unhappy: Mood congruent gaze in young adults, positive gaze in older adults. Psychological Science, 19, 848-853. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02167.x
  • Fung, H.L., Isaacowitz, D.M., Lu, A.Y., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. (2008). Age-related positivity enhancement is not universal: Older Chinese look away from positive stimuli. Psychology and Aging, 23,  440-446. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.440
  • Allard, E.S., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2008). Are preferences in emotional processing affected by distraction? Examining the age-related positivity effect in visual fixation within a dual-task paradigm. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15,  725-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825580802348562
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Loeckenhoff, C.,Wright, R., Sechrest, L., Riedel, R., Lane, R.A., & Costa, P.T. (2007). Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions. Psychology and Aging, 22, 147-159. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.147
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2007). Learned Helplessness. In The Encyclopedia of Stress, 2nd edition (pp. 567-570). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
  • Luo, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2007). How optimists face skin cancer information: Risk assessment, attention, memory, and behavior. Psychology & Health, 22, 963-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/14768320601070951
  • Xing, C., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). Aiming at happiness: How motivation affects attention to and memory for emotional images. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-006-9032-y
  • Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). Positive mood broadens visual attention to positive stimuli. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-006-9021-1
  • Rossi, N., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). What is important to me right now? Age differences in domain selectivity depend on the measure. Ageing International,  31, 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-006-1002-x
  • Pruzan, K., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). An attentional application of socioemotional selectivity theory in college students. Social Development, 15, 326-338.
  • Light, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). The effect of developmental regulation on visual attention: The example of the “Biological Clock.” Cognition and Emotion, 20, 623-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930500336540
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. (2006). Selective preference in visual fixation away from negative images in old age? An eye tracking study. Psychology and Aging, 21, 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.221
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. (2006). Is there an age-related positivity effect in visual attention? A comparison of two methodologies. Emotion, 6, 511-516. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.511
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). Understanding individual and age differences in well-being: An experimental, attention-based approach. In A. Ong & M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology (pp. 220-232). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2006). Motivated gaze: The view from the gazer. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 68-72. [Reprinted in S.T. Charles (Ed.). (2009). Current Directions in Adulthood and Aging. Boston: Pearson.] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00409.x
  • Xing, C., Luo, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2005). Human strengths, culture and aging. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 6,  27-59.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2005). The gaze of the optimist. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 407-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167204271599
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2005). Correlates of well-being in adulthood and old age: A tale of two optimisms. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2004.02.003
  • Isaacowitz, D.M. (2005). An attentional perspective on successful socioemotional aging: Theory and preliminary evidence. Research in Human Development, 2, 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15427617rhd0203_3
  • Carstensen, L. L, Charles, S. T., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Kennedy, Q. (2003). Emotion and life-span personality development. In R.J. Davidson, H.H. Goldsmith, & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Handbook of Affective Sciences (pp. 726-744). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Vaillant, G.E., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2003). Strengths and satisfaction across the adult lifespan. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 57, 183-203. https://doi.org/10.2190/61EJ-LDYR-Q55N-UT6E
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Smith, T.B., & Carstensen, L.L. (2003). Socioemotional selectivity and mental health among trauma survivors in old age. Ageing International, 28, 181-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-003-1023-7
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2003). Cognitive styles and well-being in adulthood and old age. In M. Bornstein, L. Davidson, C.L.M. Keyes, K. Moore, & The Center for Child Well-Being (Eds.), Well-Being: Positive development across the lifespan (pp. 449-475). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Smith, J. (2003). Positive and negative affect in very old age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58B, P143-P152. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.3.P143
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2002). Cognitive style predictors of affect change in older adults. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 54, 233-253. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2190/J6E5-NP5K-2UC4-2F8B
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., & Seligman, M.E.P. (2001). Is pessimism a risk factor for depressive mood among community-dwelling older adults?  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00178-3
  • Seligman, M.E.P., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2000). Learned helplessness. In The Encyclopedia of Stress (Vol. 2, pp. 599-603). San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Isaacowitz, D.M., Charles, S.T., & Carstensen, L.L. (2000). Emotion and cognition. In F.I.M. Craik & T.A. Salthouse (Eds.), The Handbook of Aging and Cognition (2nd edition, pp. 593-631). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Carstensen, L.L., Charles, S.T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. (2000). Applying science to human behavior (Reply to Comment). American Psychologist, 55, 343. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.3.343.a
  • Carstensen, L.L., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Charles, S.T. (1999). Taking time seriously: A theory of socioemotional selectivity. American Psychologist, 54, 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.54.3.165