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Title

Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology

Degree

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Field of Specialty

Emotion and Aging. Research focuses on emotion in adulthood and old age. In particular, he is interested in the interplay of cognitive processes, particularly attention, and emotion through the adult lifespan.

Contact Information

Brown Social Science Center 003
dmi@brandeis.edu

Personal Web Page

Derek M Isaacowitz

Studies how emotional experiences change with age, and how individual differences in predictors of emotion, such as optimism, may change throughout adulthood.

Publications

Isaacowitz, D, M., & Riediger, M. "Introduction to the Special Section: When Age Matters. Developmental Perspectives on “Cognition and Emotion”." Cognition and Emotion (2011). (forthcoming)

Isaacowitz, D, M., & Stanley, J.T. "Bringing an ecological perspective to the study of aging and emotion recognition: Past, current, and future methods." Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (2011). (forthcoming)

Isaacowitz, D.M., & Choi, Y.S. "The malleability of age-related positive gaze preferences: Training to change gaze and mood." Emotion (2011). (forthcoming)

Li, T., Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "The role of dispositional reappraisal in the age-related positivity effect." Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences (2011). (forthcoming)

Murphy, N.A., Lehrfeld, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Recognition of posed and spontaneous dynamic smiles in young and older adults." Psychology and Aging (2011). (forthcoming)

Noh, S.R., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Age differences in the emotional modulation of attention: Effects of emotional cues on attentional engagement and disengagement." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2011). (forthcoming)

Noh, S.R., Lohani, M., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Deliberate real-time mood regulation in adulthood: The importance of age, fixation and attentional functioning." Cognition and Emotion (2011). (forthcoming)

Stanley, J.T., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Age-related differences in profiles of mood-change trajectories." Developmental Psychology (2011). (forthcoming)

Wadlinger, H.A. & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Fixing our focus: Training attention to regulate emotion." Personality and Social Psychology Review 15. (2011): 75-102.

Allard, E.S., Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M.. "Positive gaze preferences in older adults: Assessing the role of cognitive effort with pupil dilation." Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 17. (2010): 296-311.

Fung, H.H., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Lu, A.Y. "Interdependent self-construal moderates age-related negativity reduction effects in memory." Psychology and Aging 25. (2010): 321-329.

Murphy, N.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M.. "Age effects and gaze patterns in recognizing emotional expressions: An in-depth look at gaze measures and covariates.." Cognition and Emotion 24. (2010): 436-452.

Pearman, A., Andreoletti, C., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Sadness prediction and response: Effects of age and agreeableness." Aging and Mental Health 14. (2010): 355-363.

Piquado, T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Wingfield, A. "Pupillometry as a measure of cognitive effort in younger and older adults." Psychophysiology 47. (2010): 560-569.

Ersner-Hershfield, H., Carvel, D.S., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Feeling happy and sad, but only seeing the positive: Poignancy and the positivity effect in attention." Motivation and Emotion 33. (2009): 333-342.

Isaacowitz, D.M., Allard, E., Murphy, N.A., & Schlangel, M. "The time course of age-related preferences towards positive and negative stimuli." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science 64B. (2009): 188-192.

Isaacowitz. D.M., Toner, K., & Neupert, S.D. "Use of gaze for real-time mood regulation: Effects of age and attentional functioning." Psychology and Aging 24. (2009): 989-994..

Larcom, M.J. & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: Age and individual differences." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 64B. (2009): 733-741.

Nguyen, H.T., Isaacowitz, D.M., & Rubin, P.A.D.. "Age- and fatigue-related markers of human faces: An eye tracking study." Opthamology 115. (2009): 355-360.

You, J., Fung, H.H., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Age differences in dispositional optimism: A cross-cultural study." European Journal of Aging 6. 247-252 (2009).

Allard, E.S., & Isaacowitz, D.M.. "Are preferences in emotional processing affected by distraction? Examining the age-related positivity effect in visual fixation within a dual-task paradigm." Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 15. (2008): 725-743.

Fung, H.L., Isaacowitz, D.M., Lu, A.Y., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson. H.R.. "Age-related positive enhancement is not universal: Older Chinese look away from positive stimuli." Psychology and Aging 23. (2008): 440-446.

Isaacowitz, D.M. Toner, K., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R.. "Looking while unhappy: Mood congruent gaze in young adults, positive gaze in older adults.." Psychological Science 19. (2008): 843-853.

Murphy, N.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M.. "Preferences for emotional information in older adults: A meta-analysis of memory and attention studies." Psychology and Aging 23. (2008): 263-286.

Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M.. "Looking happy: The experimental manipulation of a positive visual attention bias." Emotion 8. (2008): 121-126.

Isaacowitz, D.M., Loeckenhoff, C.,Wright, R., Sechrest, L., Riedel, R., Lane, R.A., & Costa, P.T. "Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions." Psychology and Aging 22. (2007): 147-159.

Luo, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "How optimists face skin cancer: Risk assessment, attention, memory, and behavior." Psychology & Health 22. (2007): 963-984.

Isaacowitz, D.M., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. "Is there an age-related positivity effect in visual attention? A comparison of two methodologies." Emotion 6. (2006): 511-516.

Isaacowitz, D.M., Wadlinger, H.A., Goren, D., & Wilson, H.R. "Selective preference in visual fixation away from negative images in old age? An eye tracking study." Psychology and Aging 21. (2006): 40-48.

Isaacowitz, Derek M. "Moitvated Gaze: The View from the Gazer." 15. (2006): 68-72.

Isaacowitz, Derek M. "Understanding individual and age differences in well-being: An experimental, attention-based approach." Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology. Ed. A. Ong, M. van Dulmen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 220-232.

Light, J., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "The effect of developmental regulation on visual attention: The example of the "Biological Clock"." Cognition and Emotion 20. (2006): 623-645.

Pruzan, K., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "An attentional application of socioemotional selectivity theory in college students." Social Development 15. (2006): 326-338..

Rossi, N., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "What is important to me right now? Age differences in domain selectivity depend on the measure." Ageing International 31. (2006): 24-43.

Wadlinger, H.A., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Positive mood broadens visual attention to positive stimuli." Motivation and Emotion 30. (2006): 89-101.

Xing, C., & Isaacowitz, D.M. "Aiming at happiness: How motivation affects attention to and memory for emotional images." Motivation and Emotion 30. (2006): 249-256.

Isaacowitz,Derek M. "An attentional perspective on successful socioemotional aging: Theory and preliminary evidence." Research in Human Development (2005).

Isaacowitz,Derek M. "Correlates of well-being in adulthood and old age: A tale of two optimisms." Journal of Research in Personality (2005).

Isaacowitz,Derek M. "The gaze of the optimist." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2005).

Isaacowitz,Derek M Co-Authored with Smith, J.. "Positive and Negative Affect in Very Old Age." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 58B. (2003): P143-P152.

Isaacowitz,Derek M with M.E.P. Seligman. "Cognitive Style Predictors of Affect Change in Older Adults." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 54. (2002): 233-253.

Isaacowitz,Derek M, with M.E.P. Seligman. "Is Pessimistic Explanatory Style a Risk Factor for Depressive Mood among Community-Dwelling Older Adults?." Behaviour Research and Therapy 39. (2001): 255-272.

Isaacowitz,Derek M, with L.L. Carstensen and S.T. Charles. "Emotion and Cognition." The Handbook of Aging and Cognition, 2nd edition. Ed. F.I.M. Craik and T.A. Salthouse. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. 593-631.

Isaacowitz,Derek M with L.L. Carstensen and S.T. Charles. "Taking Time Seriously: A Theory of Socioemotional Selectivity." American Psychologist 54. (1999): 165-181.

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