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Age and excuses for forgetting
— self-handicapping versus damage control strategies | | Author(s) | Joan T Erber, Irene G Prager |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 50, no 3, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 201-214 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A damage control strategy can ameliorate negative capability impressions. Study participants (age range 17-84, the "perceivers") were instructed to imagine themselves as supervisors interviewing a "target" for a volunteer position who had giving an excuse for forgetting something. Perceivers had a higher opinion of the target's memory, were more confident of the target's capability of performing memory-related tasks, and attributed the target's memory failure more to bad luck when the excuse was given after (damage-control limitation) rather than before the interview (self-handicapping strategy). Moreover, the excuse given before the interview had no significant effect on perceivers' judgments when compared with data from an earlier study in which the target gave no excuse for forgetting. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001019211 A |
| Classmark | DB: 4C: 7T |
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