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Laura Carstensen

Developmental Psychology

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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Birthplace
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1
Defining Contribution
Socioemotional selectivity theory 1
Notable Work
A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Era of Increased Longevity (2011) 1
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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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