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Joseph A. Mikels

Joseph A. Mikels

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Psychology

D-Index
30
Citations
10461
World Ranking
11267
National Ranking
5881

Overview

Joseph A. Mikels is affiliated with DePaul University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with an emphasis on aging and gerontology, applied psychology, neuropsychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their body of work includes investigations into behavioral health, psychological well-being, decision-making, and mental health topics.

The main fields of study covered by Mikels include:

  • Psychology

Subfields of study in their research encompass:

  • Applied Psychology
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences

The research topics that Mikels has addressed consist of:

  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Media Influence and Health

Mikels has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Gerontologist
  • Emotion
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Psychology and Aging

Notable recent publications by Mikels include:

  • "Getting to the Heart of the Matter in Later Life: The Central Role of Affect in Health Message Framing" (2020), published in The Gerontologist

Co-authorship collaborations have been an element of Mikels's research output. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Alyssa Minton
  • Nathaniel A. Young
  • Christian E. Waugh
  • Susan T. Charles
  • Claudia M. Haase

Some of the research papers closely related to their area but authored by collaborators or co-authors are:

  • "Reactive, Agentic, Apathetic, or Challenged? Aging, Emotion, and Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020), The Gerontologist
  • "The appraisal approach to aging and emotion: An integrative theoretical framework" (2021), Developmental Review
  • "The psycholinguistic and affective processing of framed health messages among younger and older adults." (2021), Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • "Can emotional acceptance buffer the link between executive functioning and mental health in late life?" (2023), Emotion

Best Publications

  • Happiness unpacked: positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience.

    Michael A. Cohn;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Stephanie L. Brown;Joseph A. Mikels

  • At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition Aging and the Positivity Effect

    Laura L. Carstensen;Joseph A. Mikels

  • Meta-analysis of the age-related positivity effect: Age differences in preferences for positive over negative information.

    Andrew E. Reed;Larry Chan;Joseph A. Mikels

  • Emotional category data on images from the International Affective Picture System.

    Joseph A. Mikels;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Gregory R. Larkin;Casey M. Lindberg

  • A Warm Heart and a Clear Head The Contingent Effects of Weather on Mood and Cognition

    Matthew C. Keller;Barbara L. Fredrickson;Oscar Ybarra;Stéphane Côté

  • Aging and the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion

    Laura L. Carstensen;Joseph A. Mikels;Mara Mather

  • Cerebral aging: integration of brain and behavioral models of cognitive function.

    Denise C. Park;Thad A. Polk;Joseph A. Mikels;Stephan F. Taylor

  • Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age.

    Joseph A. Mikels;Gregory R. Larkin;Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Poignancy: mixed emotional experience in the face of meaningful endings.

    Hal Ersner-Hershfield;Joseph A. Mikels;Sarah J. Sullivan;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Characterization of the Affective Norms for English Words by discrete emotional categories

    Ryan A. Stevenson;Joseph A. Mikels;Thomas W. James

  • Working Memory for Complex Scenes: Age Differences in Frontal and Hippocampal Activations

    Denise C. Park;Robert C. Welsh;Christy Marshuetz;Angela H. Gutchess

  • Following your heart or your head: focusing on emotions versus information differentially influences the decisions of younger and older adults.

    Joseph A. Mikels;Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Sam J. Maglio;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Older adults prefer less choice than young adults.

    Andrew E. Reed;Joseph A. Mikels;Kosali I. Simon

  • Monetary Losses Do Not Loom Large in Later Life: Age Differences in the Framing Effect

    Joseph A. Mikels;Andrew E. Reed

  • Should I go with my gut? Investigating the benefits of emotion-focused decision making.

    Joseph A. Mikels;Sam J. Maglio;Andrew E. Reed;Lee J. Kaplowitz

  • Getting the message across: age differences in the positive and negative framing of health care messages.

    Andrea M. Shamaskin;Joseph A. Mikels;Andrew E. Reed

  • Emotion and working memory: evidence for domain-specific processes for affective maintenance.

    Joseph A. Mikels;Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz;Jonathan A. Beyer;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotional stimuli.

    Jennifer C. Britton;Stephan F. Taylor;Kent C. Berridge;Joseph A. Mikels

  • Selective Attention to Emotion in the Aging Brain

    Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin;Elaine R. Robertson;Joseph A. Mikels;Laura L. Carstensen

  • I'm Feeling Lucky: The Relationship Between Affect and Risk-Seeking in the Framing Effect

    Elaine Cheung;Joseph A. Mikels

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University
Christian E. Waugh
Christian E. Waugh Wake Forest University
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas
Oscar Ybarra
Oscar Ybarra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jennifer C. Britton
Jennifer C. Britton University of Miami
Stéphane Côté
Stéphane Côté University of Toronto

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