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Age-Related Differences in How Fear, Disgust, and Sadness Influence Strategic Aspects of Arithmetic Performance.

Camille Lallement¹, Patrick Lemaire¹

¹Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7077, Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences (CRPN), Aix-Marseille Université, 13003 Marseille, France.

Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

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Summary

Negative emotions like fear, disgust, and sadness impact arithmetic strategy use differently in young adults compared to older adults. In older adults, these emotions did not affect strategy selection or execution in arithmetic tasks.

Keywords:

aging arithmetic emotion and cognition problem-solving strategies

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology

Background:

The influence of negative emotions on cognitive functions, particularly arithmetic, is not well understood.
Limited research exists on how aging affects emotion-cognition interactions in tasks like arithmetic.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the distinct effects of disgust, fear, and sadness on arithmetic strategy selection and execution.
To determine if these emotional effects on arithmetic vary across the adult lifespan.

Main Methods:

Young and older adults estimated products of two-digit multiplication problems.
Participants chose between strategies (Experiment 1) and executed instructed strategies (Experiment 2).

Main Results:

Discrete negative emotions differentially influenced strategy selection and execution in young adults.
No significant modulation of strategy selection or execution by fear, disgust, or sadness was observed in older adults.

Conclusions:

Negative emotions have distinct effects on strategic arithmetic performance in younger individuals.
Aging appears to alter or diminish the impact of specific negative emotions on cognitive strategy use in arithmetic.