Social discounting describes the tendency to show less generosity to the more socially distant recipient. With respect to age differences, prior studies (Pornpattananangkul et al., 2019; Lin & Zhang, 2020) found that older adults showed more generosity to distant others (i.

This study aims to examine the longitudinal predictors of self-continuity (SC). We plan to examine the hypothesis that greater health declines/ life changes in the prior years are associated with lower past and future self-continuity.

Findings suggest that while average self-continuity remained resilient to pandemic effects, the tendency to perceive the future as more stable than the past was reduced during the pandemic.

This study examined the robustness of previously reported age differences in self-continuity in two adult life-span samples collected in Germany and the U.S. Consistent with the prior literature (for a review see Löckenhoff & Rutt, 2016) average self-continuity was positively associated with chronological age (H1).