Early studies claimed that people were likely to die after retirement. If social gerontologists had stopped studying retirement after this knowledge had been acquired, this would be an example of

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Premature closure occurs when researchers prematurely stop conducting research after reaching a conclusion, even though there may be additional factors to consider. In this case, if social gerontologists had stopped studying retirement after the early studies claimed that people were likely to die after retirement, they would have prematurely closed the topic without considering other factors that could have influenced these findings.

Early Studies Claimed That People Were Likely to Die After