Carstensen Life-span Development Lab Department of Psychology 450 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2130

Welcome to our website! The Life-span Development Lab is located on the first floor of Jordan Hall in the Main Quad. In the broadest sense, our research focuses on the social, emotional, and cognitive processes that people use to adapt to life circumstances as they age. Our research focuses specifically on motivation and emotional functioning. We study the ways in which motivation changes developmentally and how this relates to emotional processing and emotional regulation. For papers related to the positivity effect, please click here.

If you would like more information about us and our work-- beyond that which the website provides-- feel free to contact us via email at lifespan @ psych.stanford.edu

For more information on adapting our culture to a rapidly aging population, please visit the Stanford Center on Longevity website

We hope you enjoy the site!
-The Life-span Lab Members