Ko and Neuberg conceptualize ecological affordances as life-stage-dependent opportunities and threats for goal attainment. We extend their framework by highlighting the role of personality traits in affordance enactment, showing that enduring dispositions shape how individuals respond to affordances, even as developmental goals change. Integrating trait development and life-history processes reveals complementary pathways for person-environment interactions across the life span. This perspective advances Ko and Neuberg's framework by linking functional, goal-driven accounts with systematic individual differences.
Thielmann et al. (Thu,) studied this question.