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Record Nr.

UNINA9910983061103321

Autore

Hertler Steven C

Titolo

Presidential Age : How and Why Normal Cognitive Aging Impairs Chief Executives / / by Steven C. Hertler, Aurelio José Figueredo, Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9783031808357

3031808355

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FigueredoAurelio José

Peñaherrera-AguirreMateo

Disciplina

158.4

Soggetti

Psychology, Industrial

Leadership

Evolutionary psychology

Political psychology

Political science

Leadership Psychology

Evolutionary Psychology

Political Psychology

Political Science

Psicologia del treball

Lideratge

Psicologia evolucionista

Psicologia política

Ciències polítiques

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Arousal, Attention, and Executive Functioning -- 2. Myriad Forms of Memory -- 3. Senescent Slowing -- . Part I Integrative Metacommentary -- 4. Toward a Consolidated Understanding of Intelligence -- 5. Global Decline in General Intelligence -- 6. Aging Brains and Bodies: Evidence



and Evolutionary Context -- . Part II Integrative Metacommentary -- 7. The Demands of Office -- 8. The Executive Functioning of the Chief Executive -- . References, Intro, Preface.

Sommario/riassunto

This book on presidential age is not about Alzheimer's Disease and associated pathologies of the aging brain. It is instead about the normally aging brain. Brains don’t simply develop and maintain their functionality into older adulthood unless otherwise impaired by neurocognitive disease. Were this the case, this book might be about leveraging prodromal biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases to screen prospective presidential candidates. Instead, the normal decline age brings to all human brains begs a different type of book—and a broader and more blanketed warning about electing increasingly older presidents.