What is it about?
Relationships with close social ties, and emotional wellbeing, become more important with age. This study sought to examine whether closeness to advisors (e.g., partner, friend, stranger), and everyday emotions, predict advice-taking in older adults' everyday decisions.
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Why is it important?
We found that closeness to an advisor did not influence a relationship between age and advice-taking. But when emotion was more positive, older age did relate to greater advice-taking in everyday decisions. These findings suggest that when making decisions in their everyday lives, older adults are more likely to take advice when they are feeling more positive emotions.
Perspectives
This study was a great opportunity to take the investigation of older age and advice-taking, out of the lab and into more natural settings. Given that getting older is an inevitable part of life, and that emotions can affect many things, research in this area has importance for all of us.
Tarren Leon
University of Technology Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Age, affect, and social closeness: An experience sampling study of advice-taking across the adult lifespan., Emotion, July 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/emo0001566.
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