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| Cultural differences in the relationship between aging and the correspondence bias | | Author(s) | Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Yiwei Chen, Michelle Horhota |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 6, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp P362-P365 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Attitude ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America ; China. |
| Annotation | Previous work suggests that older people show a stronger correspondence bias than do young adults. In the present study, the authors asked how pervasive age differences in social judgement biases are across cultures, that is, whether cross-cultural differences manifest themselves when a life-span developmental perspective is taken. A sample of young and older adults from China completed an attitude attribution paradigm. Data from these were compared with an existing American data set. Cultural differences were found in the extremity of the ratings. Chinese participants reported less extreme attitude ratings than did participants in the American sample. Furthermore, cultural differences were found in the correspondence bias only in the older adult samples, with older Americans displaying a greater bias than older Chinese. Findings are discussed from a life-span developmental perspective as well as from an acculturation perspective. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080307216 A |
| Classmark | DP: BB: SD6: 3KA: 7T: 7DC |
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