Wanting to Get More or Protecting One’s Assets: Age-Differential Effects of Gain Versus Loss Perceptions on the Willingness to Engage in Collective Action

David Weiss, Sabine Sczesny and Alexandra M. Freund

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2016, vol. 71, issue 2, 254-264

Abstract: Objectives. The present research examined motivational differences across adulthood that might contribute to age-related differences in the willingness to engage in collective action. Two experiments addressed the role of gain and loss orientation for age-related differences in the willingness to engage in collective action across adulthood.

Date: 2016
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