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SUBMITTER: Lempert KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9586277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lempert Karolina M KM Cohen Michael S MS MacNear Kameron A KA Reckers Frances M FM Zaneski Laura L Wolk David A DA Kable Joseph W JW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20221010 42
Older adults are frequent targets and victims of financial fraud. They may be especially susceptible to revictimization because of age-related changes in both episodic memory and social motivation. Here we examined these factors in a context where adaptive social decision-making requires intact associative memory for previous social interactions. Older adults made more maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decisions but not only because of poorer associative memory. Older adults were biased ...[more]