About this site
This site was developed by Andrea Chin at the University of Southern California as her final project for Dr. Anne Katz's GERO-435 class on women and aging. Finishing up her senior year as a psychology student, she will be graduating with her M.S. in gerontology at the USC Davis School in 2011. She is currently working as a research assistant for Dr. Bob G. Knight and is writing her thesis on age differences in emotion regulation and the emotional valence and content of autobiographical memories.
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