Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

This theory that reframed how we think about aging and relationships

In the early 1990s, Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen proposed something that challenged nearly every assumption researchers held about social life in old age. Her theory, called socioemotional selectivity theory, suggested that as people become more aware of their limited time, they don’t lose interest in connection. They get more deliberate about it.

Read article here.