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  2. Socioemotional selectivity theory - Wikipedia

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    Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; developed by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen) is a life-span theory of motivation. The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities.

  3. Laura L. Carstensen - Wikipedia

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    Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and professor of psychology at Stanford University, where she is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity [1] and the principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. [2]

  4. Negativity bias - Wikipedia

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    The negativity bias, [1] also known as the negativity effect, is a cognitive bias that, even when positive or neutral things of equal intensity occur, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.

  5. Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience - HuffPost

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    Jessica Wisdom, Julie S. Downs and George Loewenstein Contact Information: We thank the USDA Economic Research Service and the Center for Behavioral Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University for financial support, and Howard Seltman, Jay Variyam, and Roberto Weber for numerous helpful suggestions on the design and analysis of our results.

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  7. Selective exposure theory - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent research on selective exposure within the dissonance theory produced weak empirical support until the dissonance theory was revised and new methods, more conducive to measuring selective exposure, were implemented. [24] To date, scholars still argue that empirical results supporting the selective exposure hypothesis are still mixed.

  8. Why Diversity Matters Catalyst 7-16-12 - HuffPost

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  9. George Loewenstein - Wikipedia

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    George Loewenstein (born August 9, 1955) [1] is an American educator and economist. He is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Center for Behavioral Decision Research.