Lacey, Heather; Kierstead, Todd; Morey, Diana - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 4, pp. 647-658
While most research shows increasing happiness across the adult life-span, there is a common and persistent misconception that happiness decreases with age. In two experiments, we found evidence to suggest that this age-happiness bias results in part from a biased search for exemplars in memory....