Roles of cognitive load and self‐relevance during emotional information searching on decision‐making

Older adults have been found to favor positive stimuli over negative stimuli; further, developing a negative preference may be a cognitively demanding process. In the present study, we focused on the joint effects task self‐relevance and cognitive load have on older adults' emotional information preferences when performing decision‐making. To examine this, we used multi‐attribute decision tasks and process‐tracing procedure to measure their...