Does it really decline with age, or did older people form their values in a different culture? It’s possible people’s values are stable over time but people born a long time ago were more likely to form different values from the ones formed by people born more recently. Has anyone tried to distinguish between these possibilities?
Pardon my sloppy phrasing. I did not intend to imply causality one way or another, merely the correlation. I edited the original comment to reflect my intent.
Robert Altemeyer reports a correlation between a likely-related attitude (support for ‘traditional’ authority) and—not age, but having children. Continued education has a stronger apparent effect in the opposite direction. But I don’t think he directly addresses this question.
Does it really decline with age, or did older people form their values in a different culture? It’s possible people’s values are stable over time but people born a long time ago were more likely to form different values from the ones formed by people born more recently. Has anyone tried to distinguish between these possibilities?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/aw6/global_warming_is_a_better_test_of_irrationality/61ff
Pardon my sloppy phrasing. I did not intend to imply causality one way or another, merely the correlation. I edited the original comment to reflect my intent.
Robert Altemeyer reports a correlation between a likely-related attitude (support for ‘traditional’ authority) and—not age, but having children. Continued education has a stronger apparent effect in the opposite direction. But I don’t think he directly addresses this question.