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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Derek M. Isaacowitz is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology. Their work focuses on aging and related psychological processes, contributing extensively across multiple subfields such as neuropsychology and physiological psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Aging and gerontology research
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global health workforce issues
  • Public health policies and education
  • Healthcare policy and management
  • Mental health research topics

Derek M. Isaacowitz has published in several prominent academic venues, notably:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Aging & Mental Health
  • Emotion
  • Current Opinion in Psychology

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate their focus on aging and emotion regulation, including:

  • What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation? (2022), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Age-Related Changes in the Role of Social Motivation: Implications for Healthy Aging (2021), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Aging and emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in Aging & Mental Health
  • Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model (2021), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Age differences in emotion regulation strategy use and flexibility in daily life (2023), published in Aging & Mental Health

Frequent co-authors in Derek M. Isaacowitz's research include:

  • Hannah Wolfe
  • Suzanne Meeks
  • Steven M. Albert
  • Rozalyn M. Anderson
  • Judith L. Howe

Recognized within their professional community, Derek M. Isaacowitz was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Taking Time Seriously. A Theory of Socioemotional Selectivity

    Laura L. Carstensen;Derek M. Isaacowitz;Susan T. Charles

  • Selective preference in visual fixation away from negative images in old age? An eye-tracking study.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Heather A. Wadlinger;Deborah Goren;Hugh R. Wilson

  • Fixing Our Focus: Training Attention to Regulate Emotion:

    Heather A. Wadlinger;Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Positive mood broadens visual attention to positive stimuli

    Heather A. Wadlinger;Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: Challenges and opportunities

    Todd S. Braver;Marie K. Krug;Kimberly S. Chiew;Wouter Kool

  • Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Richard D. Lane;Ron Wright

  • Preferences for emotional information in older and younger adults: A meta-analysis of memory and attention tasks.

    Nora A. Murphy;Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Pupillometry as a measure of cognitive effort in younger and older adults.

    Tepring Piquado;Derek Isaacowitz;Arthur Wingfield

  • Is there an age-related positivity effect in visual attention? A comparison of two methodologies.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Heather A. Wadlinger;Deborah Goren;Hugh R. Wilson

  • Looking While Unhappy Mood-Congruent Gaze in Young Adults, Positive Gaze in Older Adults

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Kaitlin Toner;Deborah Goren;Hugh R. Wilson

  • The Gaze of the Optimist

    Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Linking Process and Outcome in the Study of Emotion and Aging.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Fredda Blanchard-Fields

  • Looking Happy: The Experimental Manipulation of a Positive Visual Attention Bias

    Heather A. Wadlinger;Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Use of gaze for real-time mood regulation: effects of age and attentional functioning.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Kaitlin Toner;Shevaun D. Neupert

  • Motivated Gaze: The View From the Gazer

    Derek M. Isaacowitz

  • Positive and Negative Affect in Very Old Age

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Jacqui Smith

  • Bringing an Ecological Perspective to the Study of Aging and Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions: Past, Current, and Future Methods.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Jennifer Tehan Stanley

  • The Time Course of Age-Related Preferences Toward Positive and Negative Stimuli

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;Eric S. Allard;Nora A. Murphy;Mark Schlangel

  • A consensus-based transparency checklist

    Balazs Aczel;Barnabas Szaszi;Alexandra Sarafoglou;Zoltan Kekecs

  • Strengths and satisfaction across the adult lifespan.

    Derek M. Isaacowitz;George E. Vaillant;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Correlates of well-being in adulthood and old age: A tale of two optimisms

    Derek M. Isaacowitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Helene H. Fung
Helene H. Fung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
David DeSteno
David DeSteno Northeastern University
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Randall W. Engle
Randall W. Engle Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

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