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Cohort 2 Participants (2005-2006)
Cohort 1 Participants (2004-2005)
Psychology Institutes and Their ImpactTo date, six groups of psychology faculty have participated in a similar program (the first cohort in summer 1998, the second in summer 1999, the third in summer 2000, the fourth in summer 2001, and the fifth in summer 2002). The program has received outstanding ratings from all cohorts. Participants report that the program has revitalized them to develop a focused research agenda, has introduced them to visiting professors who remain available to provide necessary consultation, has made them aware of grant support available at NIA, and has helped create relationships with colleagues from other colleges and universities. Many participants have commented upon how their students have benefited from the new knowledge, techniques, and cutting-edge research they have incorporated in the courses they teach.
Cohort #1. During 1998-99 12 members of the first cohort submitted their proposals to NIA and an additional three shared their outlines with the institute faculty and fellow participants at the follow-up institute. Titles of their research proposals are given below:
- The Effects of Filial Piety on Ageism in Lakota Culture
- Using Examples to Discuss Successful Adaptation to Growing Older
- The Relationship of the Experiences of Racism and Homoprejudice in Older African
- American Gay Men to Self Esteem, Life Satisfaction and General Mental Health
- Age-Related Regulation of Emotion and Its Impact on Adaptation to the Environment
- Understanding Mental Models as Tools for Older Adults
- Immigrant Elderly: The Experience of Asian Indians in America
- Retirement Experiences of African Americans
- Dementia Among Community-Dwelling Spanish-Speaking Elderly
- Mechanisms of False Memory in Young and Older Adults
- Health and Social Support Among Low Income Elders
- Immigrant Elderly: The Experience of Hmong Population in Minnesota
- Social Support, Personality and Health of Asian Indian Immigrants
- Perfectionism and Psychological Distress in Older Adults
- Evaluating Perceived Quality of Advice Given by Older Women to Middle-aged Daughters
- Social Control and Well-being Among Older Adults
Cohort #2. All members of the second cohort have developed their proposal outlines focusing on areas such as retirement planning, intergenerational exchange, stereotyping, technology use, quality of life, spirituality, human factors, and minority aging. Working titles of Cohort #2 proposals are given below:
- A Neuropsychological Measure to Predict Elderly Depression.
- Visual and Auditory Contributions to Speech Perception in the Course of Sensory Changes among Elders.
- Caregiving and the Socialization of the Young.
- Psychomotivational Determinants of Retirement Planning.
- Factors Effecting the Quality of Life Among Older Adults in Rural Minnesota.
- Early Dementia and Decision-Making Roles as Moderators of Collaborative Cognition in Older Married Couples.
- Social and Behavioral Factors Associated with Safer Sex Practices Among Older Adults.
- Stereotypes of the Elderly in Age-segregated Living Situations.
- Effects of Stereotyping the Elderly.
- Willingness to Support Community Services for older adults.
- Attitudes towards older adults.
- Construct Validation of the Aggression Prone Personality Typology.
- Adult Aging and the Speed of Word Recognition Processes.
- Self, Health, and Life Satisfaction in Mexican Americans.
Cohort #3. Working Titles of Cohort #3 research proposals are given below:
- The Cognitive Processes that Underlie Decision-Making: An Investigation of Changes Related to Aging and Estrogen Replacement Therapy.
- Linking Disclosure and Health in Older Adults.
- The Role of Life-Span Developmental Regulation Processes in Everyday Problem Solving: Age-Related Differences in Problem-Solving Life Challenges.
- Age Differences in False Memories Due to Repeated Attempts at Recollection.
- Discrimination against older GLBTs in health care settings: Suspicions, sources, and potential remedies.
- Making end-of-life decisions: An examination of age differences in treatment preferences.
- Wisdom: The Role of Age and Personality on Wisdom.
- Errors and Repairs in Collected Speech Samples of Young and Older Adults.
- Graying and Staying in Academia.
- Relationship between daily environmental context and affect.
- Personality, Gender Orientation, and Health Behaviors.
- Cultural Identification of two generations of Chinese Americans.
- Role of Psychosocial factors in adult-onset Diabetes in African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
Cohort #4. Working Titles of Cohort #4 research proposals are given below:
- Usefulness of Life Review in Addressing Depression.
- Caretaking Across the Rio Bravo: Impact of Migration on Perceptions of Parental Needs, and Attitudes and Behaviors of Filial Obligation in Mexican Women.
- Improving Cognitive Functioning Among African-Americans Through Caregiving.
- Universal Design and Aging.
- The Acculturation and Psychological Well-Being of Arab Muslim Immigrants and Sojourners in the U.S.
- The Impact of Participation in Intergenerational Activities with College Students on the Level of Life Satisfaction and Facilities Satisfaction of Residents in a College-Affiliated Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).
- Healthy Aging, Healthy Mind: An Educational Intervention Program on Quality of Life and Cognitive Vitality for Latina Women with Subjective Complaints of Cognitive Impairments and Chronic Stress.
- An Evaluation of Auditory and Visual Stimuli for Possible use in Collision Warning Systems as a Function of Age.
- Cross-Cultural Analysis of Loneliness and Solitude: The Role of Religion, Spirituality, and Personality Traits.
- Stability of Personality Across the Adult Life-Span.
- Resiliency in Native American Elders: A Focus on the Process of Adaptation.
Life-Course Socioeconomic Disparity, Cumulative Psychological Stress and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults.
Cohort #5. Working Titles of Cohort #5 research proposals are given below:
- The Sibling Parent Care Project (SPC).
- Preference Reversal Effects.
- Perceptions of, and Attitudes Toward, Conflict among Older Adults.
- The Effects of Aging Stereotypes on Individual Contribution to Collaborative Tasks: Social Loading or Compensation?
- Older Adults and the Internet: Potential Health Communication Resources.
- Effects of Relationship Type and Sex on Older Adults' Cognitive Collaboration.
- Neuropsychological Correlation's of Implicit Source Memory Performance.
- Personality Characteristics and Prospective Memory Performance.
- Late-Life Work Issues among Migrant Workers of Mexican Decent: An Exploratory Investigation.
- Disablement Process and Quality of Life Outcomes among older Hispanic Adults.
- Hypertension and Cognition.
- Identity Style and Generativity as Predictors of Development Through a Life Transition - An Integration of Ideograhpic and Nomothetic Approaches.
- The role of affect on decision-making in older adults.
- Retirement Experiences Among African American Faculty
Cohort #6. Working Titles of Cohort #6 research proposals are given below:
- Emotion regulation after the loss of a spouse.
- Marital quality, physical health, and psychological well-being in late adulthood: Direct and buffering effects.
- Effectiveness of an intervention on self-stereotyping life goals, quality of life, and cognitive performance.
- Age differences in preventive health decisions.
- Discerning and measuring aspects of caregiving experience.
- Wisdom and external control-strange bedfellows or longstanding partners? A cross cultural study of the development of contextual expertise with factors affecting one's life.
- Understanding cognitive decline in African Americans through neuropsychological testing.
- Depression and cognitive aging.
- Aging, Attention, and Affect.
- Memory and inhibition correlates of text processing in young-old and old-old adults.
- Low vision research prospect.
- Promoting resilience in later life.
- Impact of shift work on retiree's health.
- Memory and functional outcome: Normal aging to dementia.
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