Research report 2007 - Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Goal Orientations across the Lifespan

Authors
Ebner, Natalie; Riediger, Michaela
Departments

Entwicklungspsychologie (Lindenberger) (Prof. Dr. Ulman Lindenberger)
MPI für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Summary
Normative beliefs about the lifespan influence individuals’ perceptions and actions. In a recent study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development researchers used a recognition-memory paradigm in which participants are presented adult faces of various ages along with two developmental goal orientations, growth and loss-prevention, and are later asked to recognize the initially presented faces and the developmental goal orientations with which they were associated.

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