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| Framing effects in younger and older adults | | Author(s) | Sunghan Kim, David Goldstein, Lynn Hasher |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp P215-P218 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Reasoning ; Cognitive processes ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison ; Canada. |
| Annotation | A growing literature on decision-making in older people suggests they are likely to use more heuristic processing than are younger adults. The authors assessed this tendency in the context of a framing effect, a decision-making phenomenon whereby the language used to describe options greatly influences the decision maker's choice. They compared decision making under a standard ("heuristic") condition known to reduce reliance on heuristics. Participants in this Canadian study were 186 students (aged 17-28) and 186 older people (aged 58-78). In the standard condition, the older group was more susceptible than the younger group to framing, but the two groups did not differ when participants were asked to provide a justification. Thus, although older people may spontaneously rely more on heuristic processing than younger adults, they can only be induced to take a more systematic approach to decision-making. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121218 A |
| Classmark | DC: DA: B: SD6: 48: 7S |
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