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Susan T. Charles is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans psychology and social sciences with a focus on several intersecting subfields, including social psychology, health, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and general health professions.

Their primary topics of study include psychological well-being and life satisfaction, health disparities and outcomes, aging and gerontology research, mental health research topics, psychological and temporal perspectives research, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Frequent coauthors in Susan T. Charles's work include:

  • David M. Almeida
  • Jonathan Rush
  • Jennifer R. Piazza
  • Eric Cerino
  • Karen L. Fingerman

In terms of publication venues, Charles has contributed significantly to:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Developmental Psychology
  • The Gerontologist

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Living Alone During COVID-19: Social Contact and Emotional Well-being Among Older Adults," 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • "Positive factors related to graduate student mental health," 2021, Journal of American College Health
  • "The positive influence of sense of control on physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health in older adults: An outcome-wide approach," 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • "Charting adult development through (historically changing) daily stress processes," 2020, American Psychologist
  • "Longitudinal change in daily stress across 20 years of adulthood: Results from the national study of daily experiences," 2022, Developmental Psychology

These publications address various aspects of psychological health, aging, daily stress, and mental well-being, reflecting a breadth of interests in both population health and developmental processes across the adult life span.

Best Publications

  • Taking Time Seriously. A Theory of Socioemotional Selectivity

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

  • Socioemotional Selectivity Theory and the Regulation of Emotion in the Second Half of Life

    Laura L. Carstensen;Helene H. Fung;Susan T. Charles

  • Social and Emotional Aging

    Susan T. Charles;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults.

    Susan Turk Charles;Mara Mather;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Age-related differences and change in positive and negative affect over 23 years.

    Susan Turk Charles;Chandra A. Reynolds;Margaret Gatz

  • Strength and vulnerability integration: a model of emotional well-being across adulthood.

    Susan Turk Charles

  • The Wear and Tear of Daily Stressors on Mental Health

    Susan T. Charles;Jennifer R. Piazza;Jacqueline Mogle;Martin J. Sliwinski

  • Emotion Regulation and Aging.

    Susan Turk Charles;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Better with age: Social relationships across adulthood

    Gloria Luong;Susan T. Charles;Karen L. Fingerman

  • Unpleasant Situations Elicit Different Emotional Responses in Younger and Older Adults

    Susan Turk Charles;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Affective Reactivity to Daily Stressors and Long-Term Risk of Reporting a Chronic Physical Health Condition

    Jennifer R. Piazza;Jennifer R. Piazza;Susan T. Charles;Martin J. Sliwinski;Jacqueline Mogle

  • Emotion in the Second Half of Life

    Laura L. Carstensen;Susan Turk Charles

  • Age differences in reactivity to daily stressors: the role of personal control.

    Shevaun D. Neupert;David M. Almeida;Susan Turk Charles

  • Now you see it, now you don’t: Age differences in affective reactivity to social tensions.

    Susan Turk Charles;Jennifer R. Piazza;Gloria Luong;David M. Almeida

  • Close social ties and health in later life: Strengths and vulnerabilities.

    Karen S. Rook;Susan T. Charles

  • Perceptions of childhood relationships with mother and father: daily emotional and stressor experiences in adulthood.

    Melanie H. Mallers;Susan T. Charles;Shevaun D. Neupert;David M. Almeida

  • Memories of social interactions: age differences in emotional intensity.

    Susan Turk Charles;Jennifer R. Piazza

  • Emotional Experience Across Adulthood The Theoretical Model of Strength and Vulnerability Integration

    Susan T. Charles;Gloria Luong

  • Personality and stressor-related affect.

    Kate A. Leger;Susan T. Charles;Nicholas A. Turiano;David M. Almeida

  • Physical health 25 years later: the predictive ability of neuroticism.

    Susan Turk Charles;Margaret Gatz;Kenji Kato;Nancy L. Pedersen

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Almeida
David M. Almeida Pennsylvania State University
Karen L. Fingerman
Karen L. Fingerman The University of Texas at Austin
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Jacqueline Mogle
Jacqueline Mogle Pennsylvania State University
Kira S. Birditt
Kira S. Birditt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tara L. Gruenewald
Tara L. Gruenewald Chapman University
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Karen S. Rook
Karen S. Rook University of California, Irvine

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