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Aging and social expertise
— the impact of trait-diagnostic information on impressions of others | | Author(s) | Thomas M Hess, Corinne Auman |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 497-510 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Attitude ; Mental clarity ; Older people ; Adults ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Two studies were conducted to examine the bases for age difference in the construction of social inferences. In each study, adults aged 20 to 80+ were presented with an impression formation task in which they first read brief behavioural descriptions of fictitious people, and then made a trait inference and likeability judgement about each person. Results were generally consistent with previous findings in showing that ageing was associated with an increase in the weighting of trait-diagnostic information in making trait attributions. In addition, the pattern of age effects was only minimally affected by situational factors that have been known to influence the use of trait-diagnostic information. The findings are interpreted as demonstrating an ageing related increase in social expertise, in which knowledge regarding the underlying bases for the behaviours of others has been translated in specific procedural knowledge. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111235 A |
| Classmark | DA: DP: DF: B: SD: 7T |
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