Older Adults' Emotion Recognition Ability Is Unaffected by Stereotype Threat.

ABSTRACT: Eliciting negative stereotypes about ageing commonly results in worse performance on many physical, memory, and cognitive tasks in adults aged over 65. The current studies explored the potential effect of this "stereotype threat" phenomenon on older adults' emotion recognition, a cognitive ability that has been demonstrated to decline with age. In Study 1, stereotypes about emotion recognition ability across the lifespan were established. In Study 2, these stereotypes were utilised in a stereotype threat manipulation that framed an emotion recognition task as assessing either cognitive ability (stereotypically believed to worsen with age), social ability (believed to be stable across lifespan), or general abilities (control). Participants then completed an emotion recognition task in which

SUBMITTER: Atkinson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7817847 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature