ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Counting down while time flies: implications of age-related time acceleration for goal pursuit across adulthood.
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- Rewriting the Story of Mid- and Late-Life Family Caregiving: Applying a Narrative Identity Framework.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- Future Time Perspective, Priority of Social Goals, and Friend Networks in Old Age: Evidence for Socioemotional Selectivity Theory Using Subjective Age Gap.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Age Differences in the Tradeoff between Proactive and Reactive Cognitive Control in Emotional Information Processing.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Distract or Reappraise? The Mechanism of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Choice and Its Influential Factors.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Review
- The distance to death perceptions of older adults explain why they age in place: A theoretical examination.Journal of aging studies · 2020Article
- Perceived importance of affective forecasting in cancer treatment decision making.Journal of psychosocial oncologyArticle
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Abstract
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) is a life-span theory of motivation grounded in the subjective awareness of human mortality. The cardinal postulate is that time horizons shape the relative priority placed on emotionally meaningful and knowledge-seeking goals. Because goals are always set in temporal contexts, and time left in life is inversely related to chronological age, SST predicts systematic age differences in goal pursuit. The theory has garnered considerable empirical support. In this paper, we consider the role of age-related time acceleration on goal setting and argue that it may interact with the more gradual age-related changes in time horizons presumed in SST. If so, the favoring of emotionally meaningful goals may follow an exponential (as opposed to linear) function across adulthood.
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