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Preface; * Societal Influences that Affect Cognitive Functioning in Old Age, Selam Negash and Ronald C. Petersen; * Commentary: Societal Factors in Cognitive Aging: One Eye Wide Shut? Naftali Raz; * Commentary: Societal Influences on Cognition in Historical Context, K. Warner Schaie; * Wisdom in Social Context, Ursula M. Staudinger, Eva-Marie Kessler and Jessica Dorner; * Commentary: The Dynamic Relationship between Age Stereotypes and Wisdom in Old Age, Becca Levy and Corey Pilver; * Social Influences on Adult Personality, Self-Regulation and Health, Daniel K. Mroczek, Avron Spiro III, Shevaun Neupert, and Paul W. Griffin; * Commentary: From Kindling to Conflagration: Self-regulation and Personality Change, Brent W. Roberts; * Commentary: Can Self-Regulation Explain Age Differences in Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Reports of Psychological Distress? David M, Almeida, Michelle Neiss; * Social Norms, Rules of Thumb, and Retirement: Evidence for Rationality in Retirement Planning, Gary Burtless; * Commentary: Modeling the Retirement Decision, Joseph F. Quinn; * Commentary: Numbers are Just Numbers, Ellen Peters; * Race and Self-Regulatory Health Behaviors: The Role of the Stress Response and the HPA Axis in Physical and Mental Health Disparities, James S. Jackson and Katherine M. Knight; * Commentary: Mechanisms of Health Disparities: Variations in Health Care Provider Attitudes and their Impact on Older Minority Adults, Stephanie L. Garrett and Toni P. Miles; * Commentary: Adding Paths to Resilience and Daily Accounts to an Already Rich Field of Inquiry: A Brief Commentary on James Jackson's "Social structure and Health Disparities" Alex J. Zautra, Kate E. Murray, and Brendt P. Parish; Subject Index; Name Index.