It is not always positive: Emotional bias in young and older adults.
Healthy ageing has been associated to a positivity bias (i.e., greater psychological well-being and
reported positive emotions). We investigated to what extent this positivity bias also applies to
prioritizing positive information under emotional competition. Old and young adults performed a
word-face interference task, in which they responded to the valence of positive and negative targetwords while ignoring happy or angry distractor-faces that could be affectively congruent or