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Even in their initial attention to stimuli, older adults focus on the positive, and when they look at positive images, it activates their ventromedial prefrontal cortex- the region of the brain associated with emotion regulation-more than looking at negative images; for young adults, the opposite is true (Leclerc & Kensinger, 2008). According to socioemotional selectivity theory, as they age, people increasingly perceive time as finite, and so they place more effort on regulating their emotions to enhance positive experiences and diminish negative ones (Charles & Carstensen, 2014). They do this by redirecting their attention and biasing their memory to more positive aspects of their environment, and also by disengaging from negative social events. For example, they get less angry in response to interpersonal conflicts than younger adults do (Charles & Carstensen, 2008) although not all negative emotions show age-related differences. Unlike anger, sadness is similar across older and younger samples (Kunzmann & Thomas, 2014). They are more likely to avoid interpersonal conflict than younger individuals (Luong et al., 2011). They also are more selective about their social partners and they are more likely to restrict their social network to loved ones (Carstensen et al., 1997). Older folk tend to be more reciprocal and more forgiving in their social interactions than their younger counterparts. Need Assignment Help?