SOCIAL INTERACTION IN OLD AGE

在最初的赠款期间发现的发现导致了开发 一种称为社会情绪的社会和情绪老化理论模型 选择性理论。该理论认为，社会的星座 激励人类行为的目标在一生中被重新组织起来， 这样，晚年寻求信息的动机与社会 伴侣减少，调节情绪的动机增加。这个 本文所述的五年研究计划建议利用 用实验和自然主义的方法来检验由此得出的公设 理论。具体地说，这里详细描述的研究将解决 成年后情绪突显性的年龄差异观察 跨度。研究将；考察认知(研究L)和动机 (研究2)可能构成可靠情绪偏差的基础的过程 我们之前的工作，考察了信息类型的年龄差异 源自面部表情的情绪(研究3)，并阐明了 情感主题在代际互动中的作用(研究4)。在……里面 此外，这项研究将探讨自我肯定和自我认同的作用。 青年和老年社会动机的验证(研究5)和 在实地考察体验中的个体差异和 一生中情绪的社会背景(研究6)。团结在一起 研究将允许进一步发展社会情感选择性 理论，以及检查可能的相关收益和损失 发生在不断变化的社会动机中。这项研究的最终目的是 计划是理解和最大化社会和情感上的幸福感 晚年生活。

Findings uncovered during the initial grant period lead to the development of a theoretical model of social and emotional aging termed socioemotional selectivity theory. The theory holds that the constellation of social goals that motivate human behavior are reorganized over the life span, such that late in life the motivation for information seeking with social partners decreases and the motivation to regulate emotion increases. The five-year program of research described herein proposes to utilize experimental and naturalistic methods to test postulates derived from this theory. In particular, studies detailed herein will address the nature of observed age differences in the salience of emotion across the adult life span. The studies will; examine cognitive (Study l) and motivational (Study 2) processes that may underlie the reliable emotion bias found in our earlier work, examine age differences in the type of information derived from facial expressions of emotion (Study 3) and illuminate the role of emotion themes in intergenerational interactions (Study 4). In addition, the research will address the role of self-affirmation and self- verification in social motivation in young and old age (Study 5) and examine in a field context individual differences in the experience and social context of emotion across the life span (Study 6). Together the studies will allow for further development of socioemotional selectivity theory as well as examine possible associated gains and losses that may occur with changing social motivations. The ultimate aim of the research program is understanding and maximizing social and emotional well-being in late life.