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Age differences in social discounting and charitable giving in the U.S.

Objectives Social discounting describes the tendency to offer fewer resources to a recipient when the perceived social distance to them …

Lu, Goscicki, & Löckenhoff
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Age, preceding health changes, and the temporal structure of self-continuity.
Self-continuity refers to the sense of being the same person across one’s past, present, and future. It is associated with physical and …
Lu, Ghose, Gerstorf, & Löckenhoff
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The impact of age-related stereotypes on risky decision-making in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task: Shifts in prior beliefs rather than loss aversion.

Objectives Research suggests that age is associated with greater loss aversion in risk decisions and that older adults’ loss aversion …

Lu, Liao, Ma, Guo, Li, Zhou, Sun, & Zhang
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Modeling temporal self-continuity and its association with temporal discounting
Self-continuity (i.e., people’s sense of connectedness with their past and future selves) declines with increasing distance from …
Lu, Rutt, Thomas, & Löckenhoff
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Differences in the temporal extension of self-continuity over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic
This study examined whether the average levels and the temporal extension of self-continuity varied over the course of the COVID-19 …
Lu & Löckenhoff
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Age differences in self-continuity in Germany and the United States: The role of temporal direction, temporal distance, and demographics

Objectives: Previous research suggests that self-continuity is higher in older ages, especially for more distant intervals. This study …

Lu, Gerstorf, & Löckenhoff
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Viewing time and facial trustworthiness perception: Give it a second thought may not work for older adults
Older adults tend to rate unfamiliar faces higher on trustworthiness than do their younger counterparts. Although the saying goes “look …
Lu, Chen, Yin, Xu, & Zhang
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