Riediger, Michaela; Schmiedek, Florian; Wagner, Gert G.; … - In: Psychological Science 20 (2009) 12, pp. 1529-1535
Using a mobile-phone-based experience-sampling technology in a sample of 378 individuals ranging from 14 to 86 years of age, we investigated age differences in how people want to influence their feelings in their daily lives. Contra-hedonic motivations of wanting either to maintain or enhance...