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Zero-sum beliefs across age and generations.

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: the generation who is older today is less zero-sum than today's young generation. When people perceive situations that are not zero-sum as if they were zero-sum, it undermines the potential to increase mutual gains. The reduction of this bias with age could provide older people with opportunities they missed out on when they were younger. These findings are important in understanding the process of aging, and they have implications for negotiations and policy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology General

DOI: 10.1037/xge0001859

Authors: Veronica Vazquez-Olivieri, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Boaz Keysar

Institutions: University of Chicago, Tel Aviv University

Language: English

Topic: Aging and Gerontology Research

Subfield: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Chicago, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W4416578079

FWCI: 1.55

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