Over the last decade, the field of socio-emotional development and aging has rapidly expanded, with many new theories and empirical findings emerging. This trend is consistent with the broader movement in psychology to consider social, motivational, and emotional influences on cognition and behavior.The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood provides the first overview of a new field of adult development that has emerged out of conceptualizations and research at the intersections between socioemotional development, social cognition, emotion, coping, and everyday problem solving. This field roundly rejects a universal deficit model of aging, highlighting instead the dynamic nature of socio-emotional development and the differentiation of individual trajectories of development as a function of variation in contextual and experiential influences. It emphasizes the need for a cross-level examination (from biology and neuroscience to cognitive and social psychology) of the determinants of emotional and socio-emotional behavior. This volume also serves as a tribute to the late Fredda Blanchard-Fields, whose thinking and empirical research contributed extensively to a life-span developmental view of emotion, problem solving, and social cognition. Its chapters cover multiple aspects of adulthood and aging, presenting developmental perspectives on emotion; antecedents and consequences of emotion in context; everyday problem solving; social cognition; goals and goal-related behaviors; and wisdom. The landmark volume in this new field, The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood is an important resource for cognitive, developmental, and social psychologists, as well as researchers and graduate students in the field of aging, emotion studies, and social psychology.

1. IntroductionPaul Verhaeghen and Christopher HertzogPart One: Emotion during Adulthood2. Older Adults' Perception of Social and Emotional CuesLouise H. Phillips, Gillian Slessor, Phoebe E. Bailey, and Julie D. Henry3. The Effects of Age on Memory for Socio-Emotional Material: An Affective Neuroscience PerspectiveElizabeth A. Kensinger, Eric R. Allard, and Anne C. Krendl4. Age Changes in Facial Morphology, Emotional Communication, and Age StereotypingMary Lee Hummert5. Do Everyday Affective Experiences Differ Throughout Adulthood? A Review of Ambulatory-Assessment EvidenceMichaela Riediger and Antje RauersPart Two: Emotion in Context: Antecedents and Consequences6. The Dynamics of Cognitive-Emotional Integration: Complexity and Hedonics in Emotional DevelopmentGisela Labouvie-Vief, Anne-Laure Gilet, and Nathalie Mell7. Putting Emotional Aging in Context: Contextual Influences on Age-Related Changes in Emotion Regulation and RecognitionJennifer Tehan Stanley and Derek M. Isaacowitz8. Positive Emotions and Health in Adulthood and Later LifeCatherine Riffin, Anthony D. Ong, and Cindy S. Bergeman9. Boundary Conditions for Emotional Well-being in Aging: The Importance of Daily StressMartin J. Sliwinski and Stacey B. Scott10. Tasks, Capacities, and Tactics: A Skill-based Conceptualization of Emotion Regulation across the LifespanNathan S. Consedine and Iris Mauss11. Reconciling Cognitive Decline and Increased Well-being with Age: The Role of Increased Emotion Regulation EfficiencyErin Senesac Morgan and Susanne ScheibePart Three: Everyday Problem Solving12. Contextual Variation in Adults' Emotion Regulation During Everyday Problem SolvingMichelle A. Skinner, Cynthia A. Berg, and Bert N. Uchino13. Goals and Strategies for Solving Interpersonal Everyday Problems across the Life SpanJoNell Strough and Emily J. Keener14. Goals, Strategies, and Well-Being across Adulthood: Integrating Perspectives from the Coping and Everyday Problem-Solving LiteraturesAbby Heckman Coats, Christiane Hoppmann, and Stacey B. ScottPart Four: Social Cognition and Goals15. My Heart Will Go On: Aging and Autonomic Nervous System Responding in EmotionMichelle N. Shiota and Samantha L. Neufeld16. Aging Influences on Judgment and Decision Processes: Interactions between Ability and ExperienceThomas M. Hess and Tara L. Queen17. Wisdom and EmotionsMonika Ardelt and Michel Ferrari18. Values across Adulthood: A Neglected Developmental Construct Guiding Thought andAction over TimeJohannes O. Ritter and Alexandra M. Freund19. Causal Attributions across the Adult LifespanMichelle Horhota, Andrew Mienaltowski, and Yiwei Chen20. Stereotype Threat in Older Adults: When and Why Does it Occur and Who is Most Affected?Sarah J. Barber and Mara Mather