Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Part One Committee Report - 1 Overview; 4 2 The Social Side of Human Aging; 5 3 Motivation and Behavioral Change; 6 4 Socioemotional Influences on Decision Making: The Challenge of Choice; 7 5 Social Engagement and Cognition; 8 6 Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Stereotypes on Self and Others; 9 References; 10 Part Two Background Papers - Initiatives to Motivate Change: A Review of Theory and Practice and Their Implications for Older Adults; 11 A Review of Decision-Making Processes: Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Aging; 12 A Social Psychological Perspective on the Stigmatization of Older Adults; 13 Measuring Psychological Mechanisms--Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology; 14 Measurement: Aging and the Psychology of Self-Report; 15 Optimizing Brief Assessments in Research on the Psychology of Aging: A Pragmatic Approach to Self-Report Measurement; 16 Utility of Brain Imaging Methods in Research on Aging; 17 Research Infrastructure; 18 APPENDIX: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors; 19 Index

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Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology, Laura L. Carstensen and Christine R. Hartel, Editors, National Research Council