Scientists are getting closer to solving the phenomenon of misunderstanding between people of different ages. This is not a fiction or a principled position.
It turns out that there is an age after which a person can no longer change the course of his thinking.
A group of scientists from the USA, Israel and Romania came to these conclusions. The results of the work were published in the journal PLOS ONE.
The research was conducted among Romanian residents of different ages.
The country was chosen because, due to historical events, it had survived a communist and authoritarian regime of rule and had been building a democracy since 1989.
The respondents were divided into groups:
- 18-30 years old – born in democratic Romania;
- 45-59 years old – adolescence and early adulthood occurred during authoritarian rule;
- as well as people 75 years of age and older.
It turned out that evaluative thinking was better developed in people who grew up in democratic conditions and had a high level of education.
The older the generation and the lower the level of education, the more representatives of absolutist thinking there were.
Thus, scientists came to the conclusion that the type of thinking is formed up to 25 years, after which development stops and changing the type of thinking becomes difficult.
