An age apart: The effects of intergenerational contact and stereotype threat on performance and intergroup bias
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The effect of intergenerational contact and stereotype threat to older people's cognitive performance, anxiety, intergroup bias and identification was studied experimentally by participants who completed a series of cognitive tasks under high or low stereotype threat. Threat resulted in worse performance in high threat but not low threat conditions suggesting that positive intergenerational contact can reduce vulnerability to stereotype threat among older people.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2006
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Mild memory deficits differentially affect 6-year changes in compensatory strategy use
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The way in which older adults from the two memory status groups of not impaired control (NIC) and mild memory deficit (MMD) used memory compensation techniques was examined across a six-year interval with a view to identifying potential Alzheimer's disease (AD). Findings indicated that older adults with MMD declined in their use of memory compensation strategies while NIC older adults increased.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2007
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Latent variable analyses of age trends of cognition in the Health and Retirement Study, 1992-2004
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The issue of age trends in cognition among older adults observed in the longitudinal Health and Retirement Study (HRS) undertaken between 1992 and 2004 is presented.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2007
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