The Role of Emotional vs. Cognitive Intelligence in Economic Decision-Making Amongst Older Adults.

Discussion To summarize, while the construct of intelligence is considered to be stable over a lifespan, our results indicate that even within a cohort of independent, healthy, community-dwelling older adults, (1) there may be significant individual differences in cognitive and emotional aspects of intelligence that impact their economic decision-making competence; (2) this may be modulated by declines in fluid rather than crystallized aspects of cognitive and emotional intelligence; and (3) these individual differences may be mediated and moderated by structural changes in the brain across the lifespan.

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