What is it about?
Affective forecasting (ability to predict our future feelings) plays an important role in approach-and-avoidance behaviours. Whether or how this ability might change with age remains unclear. Most existing research on this topic looks at focuses on discrete outcomes in non-social contexts. In light of the socioemotional shifts associated with ageing, we investigated age differences in patterns and accuracy of predicted emotion in anticipation an interaction with a real social partner.
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Why is it important?
These findings provide novel insights into how older adults feel about engaging in future social interactions and therefore have important implications for social functioning and broader well-being in older age.
Perspectives
This was the first study to investigate age differences in affective forecasting in a social context, and to do so with a real social partner made for an exciting project to be a part of.
Daphne Wootton
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Age differences in social affective forecasting., Psychology and Aging, April 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000888.
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