With age people become wiser and judicious.
Experiments involving the elderly and young people showed that the elderly take a more thoughtful and less impulsive decisions than the young. As confirmed by scientists from the US, wisdom does come with age.
Two experiments conducted at the University of Texas, USA, showed that older people take a much more wise decisions that lead to positive results later. Students, in turn, make the choice faster, preferring to benefit immediately, and without thinking about the future.
According to previous research, our ability to make decisions declines with age, however, these works focused mainly on the decision of a problem, and not weighing several options. Psychologists from Texas has developed tests to evaluate the ability of participants to make informed decisions, predicting how it will affect the future. The result was that the wisdom of older people and their ability to more broadly analyze the situation, put them in a more advantageous position in comparison with the younger rivals.
“We believe that the elderly better assess the possible benefits in the short and in the long term. Young people better cope with the assessment situation, in which there is an immediate benefit. The more experience, the more effective the decisions we have taken,” conclude the researchers.
