Emotions are often portrayed as irresistible forces that exert a sweeping influence on
behaviour. There is reason to believe, however, that people are much more flexible in …

The development of personality across the human life course may be observed from three
different standpoints: the person as actor (behaving), agent (striving), and author (narrating) …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

Narrative identity is a person's internalized and evolving life story, integrating the
reconstructed past and imagined future to provide life with some degree of unity and …

As people get older, they experience fewer negative emotions. Strategic processes in older
adults' emotional attention and memory might play a role in this variation with age. Older …

The authors review research showing that when recalling autobiographical events, many
emotionally disturbed patients summarize categories of events rather than retrieving a single …

Objectives: This study integrated results from controlled trials of reminiscence interventions.
Methods: Meta-analysis was used to aggregate results from 128 studies on 9 outcome …

Background This updated Cochrane Review of reminiscence therapy (RT) for dementia was
first published in 1998, and last updated in 2005. RT involves the discussion of memories …

This book offers an inspiring exploration of current findings from the psychology of meaning
in life, analysing cutting-edge research to propose practical, evidence-based applications …

BackgroundIt is not clear whether the effects of cognitive–behavioural therapy and other
psychotherapies have been overestimated because of publication bias. AimsTo examine …