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Jacob W. Cohen; Bruce Ramphal; Mariah DeSerisy; Yihong Zhao; David Pagliaccio; Stan Colcombe; Michael P. Milham; Amy E. Margolis – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Brain age, a measure of biological aging in the brain, has been linked to psychiatric illness, principally in adult populations. Components of socioeconomic status (SES) associate with differences in brain structure and psychiatric risk across the lifespan. This study aimed to investigate the influence of SES on brain aging in childhood and…
Descriptors: Brain, Age, Socioeconomic Status, Anxiety
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Rudert, Selma C.; Janke, Stefan; Greifeneder, Rainer – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Ostracism, that is, being excluded and ignored by others, is a highly painful and threatening experience for individuals. Most empirical research on ostracism has been carried out in the lab or focused on samples in specific contexts. Here, we investigate the effects of age on how individuals experience ostracism within a broad, representative…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Age, Adults
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Camberis, Anna-Lisa; McMahon, Catherine A.; Gibson, Frances L.; Boivin, Jacky – Developmental Psychology, 2014
In the context of the trend toward delayed parenthood, this study examines whether older maternal age is associated with greater psychological maturity and whether greater psychological maturity provides any adaptive benefit during the transition to motherhood. A sample of 240 predominantly English-speaking Australian women in a metropolitan area…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Age, Maturity (Individuals)
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Belsky, Jay; Hancox, Robert J.; Sligo, Judith; Poulton, Richie – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Evidence that the transition to parenthood is occurring at older ages in the Western world, that older parents provide more growth-facilitating care than do younger ones, and that most prospective studies of the intergenerational transmission of parenting have focused on relatively young parents led us to evaluate whether parental age might…
Descriptors: Evidence, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Age
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Pritchard, Verena E.; Neumann, Ewald – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Despite being ignored, visual distractors often produce traceable negative priming (NP) effects that can be used to investigate inhibitory processes. Robust NP effects are typically found with young adults, but not with children. Using 2 different NP tasks, the authors compared NP in 5 different age groups spanning 5 to 25 years of age. The 1st…
Descriptors: Age, Reaction Time, Young Adults, Adolescents
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors studied multiple parenting cognitions and practices in European American mothers (N=262) who ranged from 15 to 47 years of age. All were 1st-time parents of 20-month-old children. Some age effects were 0; others were linear or nonlinear. Nonlinear age effects determined by spline regression showed significant associations to a "knot"…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Age, Mothers, Age Differences
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Rovee, Carolyn Kent; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1975
The olfactory acuity of 120 individuals ranging in age from 6 through 94 years was assessed by means of magnitude production in a simple motor task. (LLK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age, Age Differences
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Anders, Terry R.; Fozard, James L. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Age differences in two groups (20-23 years, and 49-65 years) were investigated for the speed of retrieval in both primary and secondary memories. Discussion centered on the role that the older subjects slowed retrieval searches play in their more general learning-memory deficit. (DP)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Age, Age Differences
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Borke, Helene – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Rejoinder to article PS 502 129. (MB)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Kogan, Nathan – Developmental Psychology, 1975
A study of the differences in the estimates given by older and younger adults of the ages of stimulus persons distributed across the age continuum. (SDH)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Older Adults, Pictorial Stimuli
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Anders, Terry R.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Results indicate that retrieval time became slower with age. (MB)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Information Retrieval, Memory
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Chandler, Michael J.; Greenspan, Stephen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Author challenges the findings of Helene Borke who presented evidence interpreted as demonstrating that children as young as 3 years of age were able to successfully abandon their own egocentric perspectives and adopt the points of view of others. Rejoinder by Borke is presented in PS 502 130. (MB)
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation