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Emotion regulation and the cognitive decline in aging: beyond the paradox

Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Blanchet, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.

Geriatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement, 2015

Emotional wellbeing tends to hold up in later life even as the cognitive resources that emotion regulation is thought to depend on decline. This review works through that apparent paradox and what it implies for models treating regulation as a single, effortful capacity.

• DOI: 10.1684/PNV.2015.0561
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Keywords: Emotion Regulation · Aging

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Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Blanchet, S., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P. (2015). Emotion regulation and the cognitive decline in aging: beyond the paradox. Geriatrie et Psychologie Neuropsychiatrie du Vieillissement. https://doi.org/10.1684/PNV.2015.0561

See also

• The protective role of long-term meditation on the decline of the executive component of attention in aging: a preliminary cross-sectional study — Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., & Piolino, P. (2016)
• The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance — Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2016)
• The distinctive role of executive functions in implicit emotion regulation — Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2017)