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Dr. Jason C. Allaire

Research Interests

Real-world cognitive functioning of older adults, antecedents of individual differences in elders' basic cognitive functioning, modifiability of the aging mind, short-term intraindividual variability in cognitive functioning

Recent Publications

  • Voils, C.I., Allaire, J.C., Olsen, M.K., Steffens, D.C., Hoyle, R.H., Bosworth, H.B. (in press). Five-Year Trajectories of Social Networks and Social Support in Older Adults with Major Depression. International Psychogeriatric.
  • Allaire, J.C., Tamez, E., & Whitfield, K. E. (2007). Examining the Association between Lung Functioning and Cognitive Performance in African American Adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 19, 106-122.
  • Allaire, J.C., & Willis, S.L. (2006). Competence in everyday activities as a predictor of cognitive risk and mortality. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 2, 227-224
  • Mast, B.T. & Allaire, J.C. (2006). Verbal learning and everyday functioning in dementia: An application of latent variable growth curve modeling. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 6, P167-P173.
  • Allaire, J. C. & Marsiske, M. (2005). Intraindividual variability may not always indicate vulnerability in elders’ cognitive performance. Psychology and Aging, 20, 390-401.
  • Ong, A. & Allaire, J. C. (2005). Cardiovascular Intraindividual Variability in Later Life: The Influence of Social Connectedness and Positive Emotions. Psychology and Aging, 476-485.
  • Jones, R. N., Allaire, J., McCoy, K., Kleinman, K., Rebok, G., Malloy, P., Rosenberg, A., Morris, J., & Marsiske, M. (2005). A growth curve model of learning acquisition among cognitively normal older adults. Experimental Aging Research, 31, 291-312.
  • Allaire, J.C. & Whitfield, K. E. (2004). Relationships among education, age, and cognitive functioning in older African Americans: The impact of desegregation. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 11, 443-449.
  • Johansson, B., Hofer, S. M., Allaire, J. C., Maldonado-Molina, M. M., Berg, S., Pederson, N., & McClearn, G. (2004). Changes in cognitive capabilities in the oldest-old: The effects of proximity to death in genetically-related individuals over a six-year period. Psychology and Aging, 19, 145-156
  • Whitfield, K. E, Allaire, J.C., & Wiggins, S.A. (2004). Relationships between health factors and everyday problem solving in African Americans. Health Psychology, 23, 641-644.
  • Allaire, J. C. & Marsiske, M. (2002). Well- and ill-defined measures of everyday cognition: Relationship to elders’ intellectual ability and functional status. Psychology and Aging, 17, 101-115.