Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical perspectives - emotions and the aging brain - regrets and remedies, J. Panksepp and A. Miller, differential emotions theory and emotional development in adulthood and later life, L.M. Dougherty, J.A. Abe, and C.E. Izard, ethological perspectives on human development and aging, K.E. Grossman; a humanistic and human science approach to emotion, C.T. Fischer, psychosocial perspectives on emotions - the role of identity in the aging process, S.K. Whitbourne; affect and cognition - emotion, thought, and gender, G. Labouvie-Vief, emotion and cognition in attachment, V.G. Cicirelli, emotion and memory, K.T. Strongman, emotion and everyday problem solving in adult development, F. Blanchard-Fields, emotions in the construction of autobiography, J.E. Ruth and A. Vilkko; emotion and relationships - connections between parents and their adult children, L.E. Troll and K.L. Fingerman, affect and sibling relationships in adulthood, V.H. Bedford and P.S. Avioli, affect in intimate relationships - the developmental course of marriage, L.L. Carstensen, J. Graff, R.W. Levenson, and J.M. Gottman, the understanding of friendship - an adult life course perspective, B. Vries, emotional reactions to interpersonal losses over the life span - an attachment theoretical per-spective, M. Mikulincer and V. Florian; stress, health, and psychological well-being - the role of coping in the emotions and how coping changes over the life course, R.S. Lazarus, emotion, personality, and health, J.S. Tucker and H.S. Friedman, quality of life and affect in later life, M.P. Lawton, religion, emotions, and health, S.H. McFadden and J.S. Levin; continuity and change in emotion patterns and personality - mood and personality in adulthood, P.T. Costa, Jr., and R.R. McCrae, facial expressions of emotion and personality, D. Keltner, personality change in adulthood - dynamic systems, emotions, and the transformed self, C. Magai and B. Nusbaum, emotional episodes and emotionality through the life span, J.M. Jenkins and K. Oatley, the story of your life - a process perspective on narrative and emotion in adult development, J.A. Singer.