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“My students, colleagues, and I had been studying age-related changes in motivation for several years. We began to wonder whether changes in motivation would affect performance on cognitive tasks, and we set out to explore what we call socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), a life-span theory of motivation.” This article is adapted from the annual Henry and Bryna David Lecture, which was delivered at the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

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