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| Age-related priming effects in social judgments | | Author(s) | Thomas M Hess, Karen A McGee, Stephen M Woodburn |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 127-137 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Mental clarity ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; Middle aged ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Two experiments examined adult age differences in the effect of previously activated (and therefore easily accessible) trait-related information on judgements about people. The hypothesis of the study was that age-related declines in the efficiency of controlled processing mechanisms during adulthood would be associated with increased susceptibility to judgement biases associated with such information. In each study, one group of adults aged 18-29 and one group aged 57-75 made impression judgements about a fictional person described in a short vignette, and assimilation of these judgements to trait constructs activated in a previous, unrelated task were examined. Consistent with the study hypotheses, older adults were likely to form impressions that were biased toward the primed trait constructs. In contrast, younger adults showed greater awareness of the primed information and were more likely to correct for its perceived influence, in particular when distinctive contextual cues regarding the source of the primes were available. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980708411 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: DF: B: SD6: SE: 7T |
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