Department of Psychology, West Virginia University.
RAND Corporation.
Psychol Aging. 2019 Mar;34(2):311-316. doi: 10.1037/pag0000301. Epub 2018 Oct 25.
Inaction inertia occurs when missing an attractive opportunity (vs. not having been offered it) decreases the likelihood of acting on another similar opportunity. We experimentally manipulated future time perspective to reduce inaction inertia. Middle-aged and older adults from the Health and Retirement Study were randomly assigned to imagining restricted or expansive time left to live, or to no instructions. Across age, imagining a restricted future (vs. the other two instructions) reduced inaction inertia and future time perspective. Imagining living longer increased future time perspective among relatively younger participants. Consequences of restricted time perspective for decisions and life regrets are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
不作为惯性是指错失有吸引力的机会(与未获得机会相比)会降低对另一个类似机会采取行动的可能性。我们通过实验操纵未来时间视角来减少不作为惯性。来自健康与退休研究的中年和老年人被随机分配到想象限制或扩展的剩余寿命,或者没有任何指示。在所有年龄段,想象一个有限的未来(与其他两个指令相比)减少了不作为惯性和未来时间视角。想象寿命延长增加了相对较年轻参与者的未来时间视角。讨论了限制时间视角对决策和生活遗憾的影响。(心理学文摘数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。