The Impact of Naturalistic Age Stereotype Activation.

ABSTRACT: Almost self-fulfilling, commonly held negative stereotypes about old age and memory can impair older adults' episodic memory performance, due to age-based stereotype threat or self-stereotyping effects. Research studies demonstrating detrimental impacts of age stereotypes on memory performance are generally conducted in research laboratories or medical settings, which often underestimate memory abilities of older adults. To better understand the "real world" impact of negative age and memory stereotypes on episodic memory, the present research tested story recall performance of late middle-aged and older adults (N = 51) following a naturalistic age stereotype manipulation, wherein every day, newspaper-style materials (comics and puzzles) were either embedded with negative age and me

SUBMITTER: Strickland-Hughes CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8302256 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature