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Selected Publications
For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.
Socioemotional perspectives on adult development
(with JT Stanley) Handbook of Developmental Psychology: Adult Development and Aging (pp. 236-253). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Linking process and outcome in the study of emotion and aging
(with Blanchard-Fields, F.) Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 3-17.
Age differences in attention toward decision-relevant information: Education matters
(with Xing, C.) International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 73, 299-312.

