Older and Younger Adults Perform Similarly in an Iterated Trust Game.

ABSTRACT: In social contexts, aging is typically associated with a greater reliance on heuristics, such as categorical information and stereotypes. The present research examines younger and older adults' use of individuating and age-based categorical information when gauging whether or not to trust unfamiliar targets. In an adaptation of the iterated Trust Game, participants had to predict the cooperative tendencies of their partners to earn economic rewards in first encounters - in a context in which they knew nothing about their partners, and across repeated interactions - in a context in which they could learn the individual cooperative tendency of each partner. In line with previous research, we expected all participants to rely on stereotypes in first encounters, and progressively learn to disr

SUBMITTER: Telga M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547485 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature