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" When time is perceived as open-ended, goals that become most highly prioritized are most likely to be those that are preparatory, focused on gathering information, on experiencing novelty, and on expanding breadth of knowledge."
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When time is perceived as constrained, the most salient goals will be those that can be realized in the short-term, sometimes in their very pursuit. Under such conditions, goals tend to emphasize feeling states"
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Old people, and the terminally ill and survivors of disasters like Sept. 11, are less interested in open-ended learning and novelty seeking, and more interested in focusing on existing relationships and directly trying to keep their mood up.
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"Recently, research has indicated a special preference for emotionally positive information over emotionally negative information in memory in older adults."
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Reminds me of the Meryl Streep quote: "I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me."
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Learning unpleasant (but possibly important) things might seem valuable if you have a long life ahead of you, when you might make use of that information. If not, why put yourself through the misery? May as well focus on the positive.
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This is related to "sense of a foreshortened future", the phenomenon in which trauma makes people reluctant to plan because they feel like their lives are somehow "already over."https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01026/full …
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If you combine both papers, you get a theory in which the old are mildly traumatized; like survivors of disasters, they feel that starting new things is futile because they don't have enough time left to complete them.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @vgr
The shift in focus towards the positive, direct & current experience makes sense Except for the counter-example of Fox news, founded to capitalize on Right Wing outrage, and often cited as the source of older viewers wallowing in anger and paranoia Any idea how these fit?
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Is Fox News more outrage-y than the popular media consumed by younger people?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @vgr
I consume neither, but I've noted that Fox is sufficiently outrage-ing that studies have been done, & ofc it was founded on that concept It'd be no surprise for others to copy that formula in other parts of the Pol spectrum The age of Fox' demo made me wonder re your points
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