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Age, the I-function, and the cognitive unconscious

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 4:45pm.
I certainly know the diminishing inclination to take (at least certain kinds of) risks as one gets older. And there may well be less I-function inhibition of the cognitive unconscious when one is younger. My guess though is that at least some of the change has to do not with a strengthening I-function but rather with a cognitive unconscious that is altered by experience. Its my unconscious rather than my I-function that inclines me to avoid things now I might not have avoided years ago. I just don't feel like doing them.

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