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| Title |
Positive feelings facilitate working memory and complex decision making among older adults
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| Published in |
Cognition and Emotion, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1080/02699931.2012.698251 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Stephanie M. Carpenter, Ellen Peters, Daniel Västfjäll, Alice M. Isen |
| Abstract |
The impact of induced mild positive feelings on working memory and complex decision making among older adults (aged 63-85) was examined. Participants completed a computer administered card task in which participants could win money if they chose from "gain" decks and lose money if they chose from "loss" decks. Individuals in the positive-feeling condition chose better than neutral-feeling participants and earned more money overall. Participants in the positive-feeling condition also demonstrated improved working-memory capacity. These effects of positive-feeling induction have implications for affect theory, as well as, potentially, practical implications for people of all ages dealing with complex decisions. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3 | 60% |
| Ireland | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 147 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 139 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 27% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 10% |
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 9% |
| Other | 28 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 64 | 44% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 11% |
| Unknown | 35 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 December 2015.
All research outputs
#1,601,876
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Cognition and Emotion
#195
of 1,468 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,045
of 177,694 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cognition and Emotion
#3
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,371,288 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,468 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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