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What look like the priorities of old age are the priorities of a short time horizon: tell a young person they have five years and they choose the same way.

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  1. Alan Castel

    Professor of psychology at UCLA

    But her work has shown that when you give people different time perspectives, they make different choices. So if you unfortunately tell someone who's younger that they only have 5 to 10 years left to live, they're going to make choices very much like older adults too.

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