Ravary A, et al. - Researchers sought to determine the older adults that might be most vulnerable to social and identity challenges. They propose that risk for lower well-being and negative attentional biases is proportional to the extent an older adult has age-related contingent self-esteem. Older adults’ self-reported aging self-worth contingencies, as well as various measures of well-being including subjective stress, were determined across three studies. Then the participants were made to complete a cued-dot probe task, where each trial either began with an aging threat or not. Findings confirm the possibility for lower well-being and negatively biased social cognitive patterns among older adults who are insecure about aging. Possibility of the key role of negatively biased attentional patterns in maintaining feelings of insecurity was suggested. Older adults who may not experience a positivity effect are particularly identified in this work.