Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and professor of psychology at Stanford University, where she is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. She is best known in academia for socioemotional selectivity theory, which has illuminated developmental changes in social preferences, emotional experience and cognitive processing from early adulthood to advanced old age.
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BirthplacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 1 Defining ContributionSocioemotional selectivity theory 1 Notable WorkA Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Era of Increased Longevity (2011) 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Laura Carstensen
Biography, birth
Carstensen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Biography, research
Carstensen is best known in academia for socioemotional selectivity theory, which has illuminated developmental changes in social preferences, emotional experience and cognitive processing from early adulthood to advanced old age.
Biography, books
In 2011 she published A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Era of Increased Longevity.
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Carstensen is best known in academia for socioemotional selectivity theory, which has illuminated developmental changes in social preferences
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