You have noticed that your 84-year-old great-grandmother has a much smaller set of friends than she used to have.You know that the same individuals who she used to be friends with are still living in the same neighborhood.According to Cartensen,why is your grandmother not interacting with some of the people for whom she was a friend? Older adults tend to ________.

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According to Cartensen's socioemotional selectivity theory, older adults tend to prioritize and invest more in relationships that are rewarding and provide emotional fulfillment, while withdrawing from relationships that are not rewarding or have become dissatisfying. This could explain why your great-grandmother has a smaller set of friends now, as she may have withdrawn from some of these friendships that did not provide the same level of emotional fulfillment as before.

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