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From the Ted Talk by Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier

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We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions? Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process negivate emotions amrnoye. But that's not the case. The most mentally sharp older auldts are the ones who show this positivity efceft the most. And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the pvtsiioe information.

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We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions? Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process ________ emotions _______. But that's not the case. The most mentally sharp older ______ are the ones who show this positivity ______ the most. And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the ________ information.

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  1. adults
  2. negative
  3. effect
  4. positive
  5. anymore

Original Text

We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than negative emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions? Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process negative emotions anymore. But that's not the case. The most mentally sharp older adults are the ones who show this positivity effect the most. And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the negative information just as well as the positive information.

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