Anger expression moderates the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on cognitive decline among African‐Americans in the Jackson Heart Study and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

Previous research has identified neighborhoods and individual psychosocial characteristics such as anger expression as important contributors to cognitive health. However, less is known about whether neighborhood environments interact with individual psychosocial characteristics to confer increased susceptibility to adverse cognitive outcomes such as accelerated cognitive decline. We tested the hypothesis that internalized anger will strengthen the associations between neighborhood disadvantage and faster rates of cognitive decline.