Jennifer Tehan Stanley, Ph.D.

Jennifer Tehan Stanley, Ph.D.

Title: Professor & Chair
Dept/Program: Adult Development and Aging Psychology
Office: CAS 340A
Phone: 330-972-8376
Email: jstanley@uakron.edu
Website: https://jstanley59.wixsite.com/emotions-and-aging-1
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Biography

Dr. Stanley earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, with a focus in Cognitive Aging, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. After postdoctoral work at Brandeis University and the Behavioral Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Stanley joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at UA, where she directs the Emotions and Aging Lab. Dr. Stanley studies socioemotional functioning across the lifespan, focusing on two broad areas of aging and emotional life: emotion recognition and emotion regulation. Her publications have appeared in Developmental Psychology, Psychology and Aging, and The Journal of Gerontology.

Publications

Recent Publications:

Stanley, J. T., & Turner, J. R. (2024). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Humor Appreciation and Function Across the Lifespan. In The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research (pp. 455-475). Cham: Springer International Publishing. 

Stanley, J. T., & Chukwuorji, J. C. (2024). Sankofa: Learning from the Past to Build the Future—Introduction to the Special issue on aging in Sub-Saharan Africa. Innovation in Aging, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae031 

Hamdani, M., Turner, J. R., & Stanley, J. T. (2023). Supervisor beware: Contemptuous feedback harms low performers and taxes working memory of rejection sensitive persons. Journal of Management Scientific Reports, 1(2), 146–168. https://doi.org/10.1177/27550311231164130 

Villalba, A., Stanley, J., Vale, M., Turner, J. & Houston, M. (2023). Age differences in using humor to cope during a pandemic. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 36(1), 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2021-0137 

Stanley, J. T., & Villalba, A. A. (2023, July). Age and emotion. In H. S. Friedman and C. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (3rd ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91497-0.00062-X 

Stanley, J. T., & Turner, J. R. (2021). Cross-cultural perspectives on humor appreciation and function across the lifespan. In E. Vanderheiden & C-H. Mayer (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Humor and Culture, (pp. 341–361). Palgrave Macmillan. 

Turner, J. R., & Stanley, J. T. (2021). Holding on to pieces of the past: Daily reports of nostalgia in a lifespan sample. Emotion, 21(5), 951–961. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000980  

Allard, E. S., Stanley, J. T., Turner, J. R., & Harrington, A. K. (2021). Age similarities in matching pro- and contra-hedonic emotional strategies to everyday scenarios. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28(2), 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2020.1722792 

Villalba, A. A., Stanley, J. T., Turner, J. R., Vale, M. T., & Houston, M. L. (2020). Age differences in preferences for fear-enhancing versus fear-reducing news in a global pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3661. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589390 

Vale, M. T., Stanley, J. T., *Houston, M. L., Villalba, A. A., & Turner, J. R. (2020). Ageism and behavior change during a health pandemic: A preregistered study. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 3156. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.587911 

Hoemann, K., Vicaria, I. M., Gendron, M., & Stanley J. T. (2020). Introducing a face sort paradigm to evaluate age differences in emotion perception. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76(7), 1272–1281. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa038 

Thompson, E., Webster, B. A., Stanley, J. T., & Levant, R. (2020). Measurement invariance by age group for the Aging Men’s Masculinity Ideologies Inventory. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 28(3), 301-317. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1060826520911159   

Allard, E. S., Stanley, J. T., Turner, J. R., & Harrington, A. K. (2020). Age similarities in matching pro- and contra-hedonic emotional strategies to everyday scenarios. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28(2), 161-183.

Levant, R., Webster, B. A., Stanley, J. T., & Thompson, E. (2020). The Aging Men’s Masculinity Ideologies Inventory (AMMII): Dimensionality, variance composition, measurement invariance by gender, and validity. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 21(1), 46–57.

Turner, J. R., & Stanley, J. T. (2020). “We” before “me”: Differences in usage of collectivistic and individualistic language influence judgments of electability and performance. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 75(9), e242-248.

Stanley, J. T., & Webster, B. A. (2019). A comparison of the effectiveness of two types of deceit detection training methods in older adults. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 4:26.

Stanley, J. T., Morrison, L. B., Webster, B. A., Turner, J. R., & Richards, C. J. (2019). An age-friendly university (AFU) assists with technology learning and social engagement among older adults and individuals with developmental disabilities. Journal of Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 40(2), 261-275.