Social Cognition and Aging

✍ Scribed by Thomas M. Hess and Fredda Blanchard-Fields (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

• ''...the present text, Social Cognition and Aging, could not have come at a better time. As the first endeavor to consolidate research in this rapidly growing field, this book gives the reader an integrated overview of research being done in social cognition and aging.''
  --CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY (2002, Vol. 47, No. 3)

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Contributors, Pages xv-xvi
Foreword, Pages xvii-xxiv, Ronald P. Abeles
1 - The Social Cognitive Perspective and the Study of Aging, Pages 1-14, Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Thomas M. Hess
2 - The Sense of Control and Cognitive Aging: Toward a Model of Mediational Processes, Pages 17-41, Lisa M. Soederberg Miller, Margie E. Lachman
3 - Beliefs about Memory and Aging, Pages 43-68, Christopher Hertzog, Tara T. Lineweaver, Christy L. McGuire
4 - Memory Self-Efficacy in Its Social Cognitive Context, Pages 69-96, Jane M. Berry
5 - Possible Selves in Adulthood: Incorporating Teleonomic Relevance into Studies of the Self, Pages 97-122, Karen Hooker
6 - Sources of Resilience in the Aging Self: Toward Integrating Perspectives, Pages 123-141, Jochen Brandtstädter
7 - Autobiographical Memory and Social Cognition: Development of the Remembered Self in Adulthood, Pages 143-171, Joseph M. Fitzgerald
8 - A Social Cognitive Perspective on Age Stereotypes, Pages 175-196, Mary Lee Hummert
9 - Age and Memory: Perceptions of Forgetful Young and Older Adults, Pages 197-217, Joan T. Erber, Irene G. Prager
10 - Social Schematicity and Causal Attributions, Pages 219-236, Fredda Blanchard-Fields
11 - Cognitive and Knowledge-Based Influences on Social Representations, Pages 237-263, Thomas M. Hess
12 - Exploring Cognition in Interactive Situations: The Aging of N+1 Minds, Pages 267-290, Roger A. Dixon
13 - Moral Development in Maturity: Life-Span Perspectives on the Processes of Successful Aging, Pages 291-317, Michael W. Pratt, Joan E. Norris
14 - The Role of Time in the Setting of Social Goals Across the Life Span, Pages 319-342, Susan Turk Charles, Laura L. Carstensen
15 - Social Cognition and a Psychological Approach to an Art of Life, Pages 343-375, Ursula M. Staudinger
Index, Pages 377-379