| Laboratory of Personality and Cognition |
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Paul T. Costa, Jr., Ph.D., Chief
Senior Investigator |
| Overview: The fundamental scientific paradigm guiding research in the Laboratory of Personality and Cognition is the analysis of individual differences. Few phenomena are more basic than the fact that human beings differ-in health, in rates of aging, in cognitive ability, in personality, in happiness, and in life satisfaction. |
| The Laboratory of Personality and Cognition (1) conducts basic and clinical research on individual differences in cognitive and personality processes and traits; (2) investigates the influence of age on these variables and their reciprocal influence on health, well-being and adaptation; and (3) employs longitudinal, experimental, and epidemiological methods in the analysis of psychological and psychosocial issues of aging, including health and illness, predictors of intellectual competence and decline, models of adult personality, and correlates of disease risk factors. |
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