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Whelan, Robert; McHugh, Louise A. – Psychological Record, 2009
The present experiment examined temporal discounting across 3 different age bands: adolescents, adults, and older adults (mean ages 14, 46, and 73 years, respectively). A computerized task was employed in which participants were asked to choose between larger rewards available at a specified time in the future--either 100 British Pounds or 1,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences
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Lee, Nick; Motzkau, Johanna – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as "human futures". In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes increasingly become key sites of bio-political action, bio-social dualism is becoming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Social Science Research, Interdisciplinary Approach
Martin, Kerry; Springate, Iain; Atkinson, Mary – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
This research looked at five intergenerational projects focusing on football, arts, knife crime, living history and personal and social education. Two projects ran in schools, one in a health centre, one in a youth drop-in centre and one at a football club. Each project had its own aims, but in addition to these, the projects aimed to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Age Differences, Interpersonal Relationship