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This new and exciting reader includes over 26 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspective-from a reliable source-about todayrs"s most current and pressing issues in adulthood and aging.

Susan Turk Charles, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. She received her doctorate from the University of Southern California and completed her clinical internship at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Her research focuses on life-span trajectories of emotional experience, and the associations between physical health and emotional well-being. She currently serves on the SPIP NIH grant review panel and is a member of the executive board of Division 20 of the American Psychological Association. She also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Psychology and Aging, and Emotion. She has authored paper over 25 journal articles and book chapters.

Introduction	p. 1
Cognitive Aging	p. 3
What and When of Cognitive Aging (Vol. 13, No. 4, 2004, pp. 140-144)	p. 5
Connecting the Many Levels and Facets of Cognitive Aging (Vol. 11, No. 1, 2002, pp. 38-43)	p. 13
False Remembering in the Aged (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006, pp. 49-53)	p. 22
Aging and Language Production (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004, pp. 21-24)	p. 30
Aging and Visual Attention (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, pp. 70-74)	p. 37
Enhancing the Cognitive Vitality of Older Adults (Vol. 11, No. 5, 2002, pp. 173-177)	p. 45
Cognitive Activity and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (Vol. 12, No. 3, 2003, pp. 87-91)	p. 52
Cognition in Context	p. 59
Neurobiological Consequences of Long-Term Estrogen Therapy (Vol. 13, No. 5, 2004, pp. 173-176)	p. 61
Hearing Loss in Older Adulthood: What It Is and How It Interacts With Cognitive Performance (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, pp. 144-148)	p. 69
Psychology and Aging: Enhancing the Lives of an Aging Population (Vol. 11, No. 3, 2002, pp. 107-110)	p. 77
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging and Culture (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2006, pp. 105-108)	p. 84
Emotion and Cognition	p. 91
Everyday Problem Solving and Emotion: An Adult Developmental Perspective (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2007, pp. 26-31)	p. 93
At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition: Aging and the Positivity Effect (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, pp. 117-121)	p. 102
Dynamic Integration: Affect, Cognition, and the Self in Adulthood (Vol. 12, No. 6, 2003, pp. 201-206)	p. 110
Motivated Gaze: The View From the Gazer (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006, pp. 68-72)	p. 119
Psychosocial Factors of Aging	p. 127
Emotion in Later Life (Vol. 10, No. 4, 2001, pp. 120-123)	p. 129
Age and Emotion in Adulthood. (Vol. 10, No. 3, 2001, pp. 87-90)	p. 136
Adaptation and the Set-Point Model of Subjective Well-Being: Does Happiness Change After Major Life Events? (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, pp. 75-79)	p. 142
Self-Esteem Development Across the Lifespan (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, pp. 158-162)	p. 150
Perceived Control Over Aging-Related Declines: Adaptive Beliefs and Behaviors (Vol. 15, No. 6, 2006, pp. 282-286)	p. 158
Health Stresses and Depressive Symptomatology in the Elderly: A Control-Process Approach (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004, pp. 17-20)	p. 166
Physical Health	p. 173
Genetics, Dementia, and the Elderly (Vol. 16, No. 3, 2007, pp. 123-127)	p. 175
Behavior in Adulthood and During Aging Is Affected by Contaminant Exposure in Utero (Vol. 12, No. 6, 2003, pp. 212-217)	p. 183
Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why? (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004, pp. 1-4)	p. 193
Resilience and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors Assessed via Diary Methods (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2005, pp. 64-68)	p. 201
Is Caregiving a Risk Factor for Illness? (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004, pp. 13-16)	p. 209
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Current Directions in Adulthood and Aging

Current Directions in Adulthood and Aging

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