The present study utilizes the relational turbulence model (RTM) to illuminate adult children's experiences of relational uncertainty and interference from partners following late-life parental divorce (LLPD). In-depth, semi-structured interviews with 25 adult children who had experienced parental divorce later in life revealed that adult children grappled with four broad themes of relational uncertainty: (a) parent-adult child relationship uncertainty, (b) parent as individual uncertainty, (c) divorce-related uncertainty, and (d) being a family uncertainty. Interference from partners was couched within adult children's experiences of feeling caught and manifested as (a) disruptions to normative developmental stressors and (b) disruptions to maintaining family ties. The discussion highlights the theoretical implications of our results for the RTM and the larger divorce literature, along with practical recommendations to assist those grappling with LLPD.

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Limited attention is a defining feature of bounded rationality. In this chapter, we survey key research topics on attention in organizational context. Since the early years of the Carnegie school, organizations have been interpreted as responses to human attentional limits. This has led to focus on how organizations provide through hierarchical decision making and task design "attention-directors" as a response to human cognitive bounds. We look at the developments of these original ideas, and to more recent approaches such as the attention-based view of the firm. We point at some specific mechanisms that can shape and guide attention allocation within organizations: control systems, communication, corporate governance, and incentives. We also present how attention allocation can have consequences for organizations' learning and adaptation to their environment. Finally, we shortly discuss the recent burst of an "inattention" literature in economics. We conclude with a set of suggestions for possible future research in this field.

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