Influence of time on social preferences: implications for life-span development

• Published in: Psychology and aging Vol. 14; no. 4; p. 595
• Main Authors: Fung, H H, Carstensen, L L, Lutz, A M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.1999
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Child; Choice Behavior; Cognition; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Female; Hong Kong; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Middle Aged; Prospective Studies; Social Behavior; Social Perception; Time Perception - physiology; United States; Hong Kong; United States

Socioemotional selectivity theory holds that the reliable decline in social contact in later life is due, in part, to older people's preferences for emotionally meaningful social partners and that such preferences are due not to age, per se, but to perceived limitations on time. Confirming the...