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| Social behavior and off-target verbosity in elderly people | | Author(s) | Dolores Pushkar, Paul Basevitz, Tannis Arbuckle |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 361-374 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Social interaction ; Older men ; Older women. |
| Annotation | In this Canadian study of 455 older people living in the community, 198 individuals were selected to participate in both a get-acquainted conversation and an experimental cues situation, and to complete social and cognitive measures. Higher off-target verbosity (OTV) participants had lower cognitive inhibitory scores, talked more, were less interested in their partners, and focused more on themselves. Their conversational partners were less satisfied. Age and cognitive functioning were not related to OTV scores or conversational style of low and mid-range participants. Although high-OTV individuals talked less when exposed to social cues signalling boredom, they spoke more relative to other participants. Self-reported social behaviour had little relation with OTV and conversational style, but higher OTV individuals were less accurate in judging videotaped social interactions. Gender differences in conversational behaviour are also discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024213 A |
| Classmark | DA: TMA: BC: BD |
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