Talk:Socioemotional selectivity theory

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definition and differential diagnosis?[edit]

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. As stated, this seems to be skirting circularity. For how is emotionally meaningful defined? One might maintain to the contrary that people of all ages favour resource allocation to emotionally meaningful goals and activities (because, on this view, this is simply what emotionally meaningful means), but what changes is just what they regard as emotionally meaningful (e.g. fewer things generally, or things that are more in the now, or, quite the opposite, things that will still matter a long time after the individual's demise). Yes, it probably comes to the same thing, but as stated, the inference might be that young people simply waste more of their time on emotionally unmeaningful goals and activities. Maybe you know somebody who became an ever more selfish hedonist as he got older. Or someone who dedicated more and more time to Quaker activities. Both examples of increased selectivity? And if both are connected to the perception of an impending end, these two chaps held very different ideas about what the end really means. How do we distinguish the influence of a shrinking time horizon from the more down to Earth effect of a shrinking daily energy budget?2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:3992:9E1F:DFAF:3D7C (talk) 15:13, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]