On Becoming an Exdriver: Prospect and Retrospect

Abstract

Anticipations of losing the driver's license or use of automobile were strongly negative, but recollections of these losses tended to be neutral among a similar group of retired people who no longer drove. These findings should be validated with longitudinal data. However, they strongly suggest protective memory-work. Retrospective distortion may provide a measure of the ego-threat presented by these and other “normal” losses during later maturity.

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