Dr. Mikels' research program represents a multi-level analysis of
the interface between emotion and cognition, and how
emotion-cognition interactions relate to and underlie complex
social behavior. His laboratory, the Emotion and Cognition
Laboratory, conducts behavioral, neuroimaging, and life-span
studies examining how emotion interfaces with cognitive processes
such as working memory and selective attention. In another line of
research, the lab studies the role of emotion-cognition
interactions in complex decision making, and how the decision
quality of older adults could be improved.
Mikels, J. A., Loeckenhoff, C., Maglio, S., Goldstein, M., Garber, A., & Carstensen, L. L. (in press). Following your heart or your head: Focusing on emotions versus information differentially influences the decisions of younger and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Shamaskin, A. M., Mikels, J. A., & Reed, A. E. (in press). Getting the message across: Age differences in the positive and negative framing of healthcare messages. Psychology and Aging.
Sullivan, S., Mikels, J. A., & Carstensen, L. L. (in press). You never lose the ages you've been: How age facilitates perspective taking ability in an affective domain. Psychology and Aging.
Mikels, J. A., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Beyer, J. A., & Fredrickson, B. L. (in press). Emotion and working memory: Evidence for domain-specific processes for affective maintenance. Emotion.
Mikels, J. A. & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (in press). Affective working memory: Converging evidence for a new construct. In S. Yoshikawa (Ed.), Emotional Mind: New Directions in Affective Science.
Ersner-Hershfield, H., Mikels, J. A., Sullivan, S. J., & Carstensen, L. L. (2008). Poignancy: Mixed emotional experience in the face of meaningful endings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(1) 158-167.
Stevenson, R. A., Mikels, J. A., & James, T. W. (2007). Characterization of affective norms for English words by discrete emotional categories. Behavior Research Methods, 39(4), 1020-1024 .
Carstensen, L. L., Mikels, J. A., & Mather, M. (2006). Aging and the intersection of cognition, motivation and emotion. In J. Birren & K.W. Schaie (Eds) Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, San Diego: Academic Press. Sixth Edition. (pp. 343-362).
Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Mikels, J. A. (2006). The aging brain: Implications of enduring plasticity for behavioral and cultural change. In P.B. Baltes, P.A. Reuter-Lorenz, & F. Roesler (Eds.), Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism, New York: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 255-276).
Britton, J. C., Taylor, S. F., Berridge, K. C., Mikels, J. A., & Liberzon, I. (2006). Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotional stimuli. Emotion, 6(1), 150-155 .
Carstensen, L. L. & Mikels, J. A. (2005). At the intersection of emotion and cognition: Aging and the positivity effect. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(3), 117-121 .
Mikels, J. A., Larkin, G. R., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., & Carstensen, L. L. (2005). Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age. Psychology and Aging, 20(4), 542-553.
Mikels, J. A., Fredrickson, B. L., Larkin, G. R., Lindberg, C. M., Maglio, S. J., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2005). Emotional category data on images from the International Affective Picture System. Behavior Research Methods, 37(4), 626-630.
Keller, M., Fredrickson, B., Ybarra, O., Côté, S., Johnson, K., Mikels, J., Conway, A. & Wager, T. (2005). A warm heart and a clear head: The contingent effects of weather on mood and cognition. Psychological Science, 16(9), 724-731.
Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. & Mikels, J. A. (2005). A split-brain model of Alzheimer's disease: Behavioral evidence for comparable intra and inter hemispheric decline. Neuropsychologia, 43(9), 1307-1317.
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